$oul  $ucker
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$oul $ucker

Hosea khitongwa
@khitongwahosea278600

5 months ago

#poetry


The fact that you know

that your lips are charming

and a tool of destruction,

yet you still gave them to me without caution.

If i knew the repercussion..

i would have stay away from it

until i have it I could taste deceit and manipulation in it,

sweet enough to make danger feel like desire.

I don’t know how many kisses it takes

for lips like yours to steal a soul,

but I’m certain the first one worked.

It’s been a week now,

and my bedsheets still remember you,

your scent refusing to leave,

like it signed an agreement in my absence.

it was suppose to be just a one-night thing,

but your presence disagrees.

You left shadows in my room,

echoes of your breath clinging to the walls,

your silence whispers louder than your voice ever was.

I don’t know the powers your lips hold,

but I know this for sure

those kisses weren’t ordinary,

not the kind born from love

or even reckless passion.

The moment you kissed me,

I realized your lips were never meant

just for affection.

They don’t ask.

They take.

Not hearts....

but souls.

And now I sleep alone,

yet I’m never by myself,

because some part of me

never came back

from your lips.

I wonder how many soul you have take with those lips

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Killeen Rohan @rohankilleen4154
damn. this hit me right in the chest. i had someone like that once, except it wasn't lips it was their laugh. still feel it sometimes years later. the way you wrote about the bedsheets keeping their scent... that part got me. hope you're okay fr
16 days ago