Acid Test

Red, yellow, green, and blue,
I want to dissolve you to the core.

I will grab you,
grip your face,
pour myself into your ear,
hissing all the way.
I want you to hear, intimately,
the crackle of my wrath.

I am serious. I will

        strip you down
        till chalky bone meets the air.
        And I will moisten even that.

                 turn your insides out
                 and make you glisten for me,
                 sweat and blood mixing in
                 a visceral salad.

        burn your heart.
        I want to feel it pulsing
        in the pit of my palm.
        Your lungs wrapping themselves around it.

And you will beg with your last breath
(or what you imagine it to be)
for all this, and even more that I will not say.

Because I cannot say it.

I cannot say it,
because I am a different animal now
and I cannot stand it.