Hunger Beyond Flesh

Not love

Not flesh

Not sin

Something deeper

Something darker

I want it to consume me

I want it to wear my name

I knelt in silence

And whispered his name

I begged to be broken

I begged for the flame

I felt him breathe

Before he touched

The kind of hunger

That needs too much

It's not his voice

It's not his touch

It's the fire inside

That burns too much

I hunger beyond flesh—beyond control

I offer my neck, I offer my soul

I am the wound

I am the flame

And he is the sin

I am the wound

I am the flame

And he is the sin

That makes me pray

I claw the sheets

With shaking thighs

I kiss the blade

He buries inside

He drinks my breath

He breaks my cries

I beg for pain

With open eyes

It's not the bite

It's not the scar

It's how I need

To fall that far

I hunger beyond flesh—beyond the grave

I'd drown in him just to be enslaved

I am the thirst

I am the need

And he is the flame

That makes me bleed

He is the drought

That floods my tongue

He is the poison

I drink like love

He is the curse

That won't let go

He is the hunger

I want to know

I hunger beyond flesh—beyond desire

I'd burn my name to feed his fire

I am the dark

I am the wound

And he is

The craving

That makes me swoon

I am the hunger

I am the flame