Submissions by Bloodtemptress

Hurt feelings
Twisted knife
I fall defeated
On my side
My love for you
made me blind
Who could let
such a betrayal slide?
This girl could,
this boy can
Such a thin line
between a trans boy
and a man
Yet as the dust settles
Id do it all again
For you to say you love me
and
whisper your demands
They say fear
is not what makes the heart grow fonder
Yet
as my soul writhed for the kinder
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Benevolent boxcars
Glow bright
Against a New Orleans moon
I remember you playing your banjo
Singing, “I’ll be there soon”
I took that to mean
You’d move from Boston
My temptress in blue
I took that to mean
I’d be there with you
So as the moon hangs low
Over bovine-lined fields
I walk ten miles
With a vengeance to wield
My bandanna hangs limply
From a chloroform hand
I’m coming my dear,
to be your man
I’ll be the one to brush
that loose hair from your face,
your only concern
in the...