Lover Masochists

a man and a women
addicted together 

to unhealthy emotions
with a strong predilection
for impossible promises

and deeply abusive mental violence
dealing loudly in very broken projections
   of the self
   of the group
   of the significant other

   (of each other)

in concert with a bit of masochism

for that pain, it's our pleasure

voluntarily cold hearted

feeding from things like. . .

betrayal and tragedy
before dinner
then disdainful tones and callous advice
right after breakfast
presented uniquely to breed our own brand of chaos

our own lovely little children, our babies
from our own unique vicious breed of mental illness
shared between two demons
two monsters, two heathens
birthing an alienation of affections
from a place of great casualty
petty hatreds
manufacted madness  

disdainful practices
and emotional stagnation
     we are strong

     we are hard
     where most are weak

     where most are soft

in our broken parts
where it hurts to move

we are the product

of a destructive art

a living piece
together trapped
in addiction to conflict
in addiction to intense resolution

existing toxically 

even though we know better
in a profoundly love-hate relationship

this is love to some people. . .
each other cutting deep 

and each other cutting often
one and then the other

and so on and so forth

spread open on the table
for the most painful of vivisections 
for the most dutiful of sentisections

back and forth

forth and back

we break the other

we fix the other
always and eventually... the reconstruction comes

always sans all anesthesia

we will fall in love again

painfully

after lunch but before dinner

blissfully 

again and again

pain was never not part of this process
as we love the delight

of being emotional vampires

Author's Note