Love to the Bone - by Charles Tyson, Jr.

True love knows no limits.

Love To the Bone �" by Charles Tyson, Jr.

 

Bones

bleach-white

lovingly polished

frozen

in an immortal posture

 Lovingly handled

and

meticulously arranged

 

Jaw frozen

in a

silent

gasp

of either

intense pain

or pleasure

or both

 

A scarlet ribbon

silkily encircles

the cervical vertebrae

as delicately

as a lover’s kiss 

 

These bones, this inner frame

of a man once loved…in a different way,

a more literal,

tangible,

returnable way

 

Now

the love

for this skeleton

is love

of a deeper desire 

One more permanent 

 

She keeps him free

of dust

and

molestation…or at least outside molestation 

 

She sometimes crawls

beneath her bed

to lie with him

molding her fleshy curves

to his bony angles

 

She told him she loved him

to the bone

  She keeps her heartfelt words

 always has

 

So love him she shall

Until her bones join his

Then

their fleshless ardor

may continue

till dust do them part.

Author's Note

This is one of my favorites....I've somehow been able to re-create this from memory more than once months and years apart, nearly word-for-word!

Reviews

[Snapdragon]

Ha! I can see why it's one of your favorites. Not many can pull off a good horror poem. You didn't. You pulled off a fantastic one! Awesome job.