Love Poem: Holding Hearts To Bleed
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Written by: Alexandra Hodgman

Holding Hearts To Bleed

I lay cold on the metal table
White sheet of paper lay atop my corpse
A snow field
Barren as i lay dead
 eyes staring up blankly
 into the shining light
absorbing my shadows

you are my doctor
the one whom shall cut me open
stitch by stich 
with your sharp incisions
formaldehyde lingering in your nostrils

I am your test
the one you practice on 
for i am not real in your eyes
i am merely a dummy here for your pleasure

And you run the tap as to divert my attention
from the pain i should be feeling 
and you cut 
digging your hands into me
pulling out my heart roughly to examine

you were never gentle
You take it betwixt your fingers
As it struggles to pump
bleeding slightly on your plastic gloves

And when you're done, you will keep my heart
and push what's left of me back into the autopsy slab
into the darkness
where i shall wait 
for you to bring me back to life