a bloody pen

If I have to write you out of my life
one line at a time

that is what I will do

when I wake from a dream
where your lips were a fury
that caressed the heartache you made

I will wake from that dream
and write you away,

putting out fires
with my fingertips

as you once extinguished
the fire of your love/hate
on my skin,

I will mend your broken promises
with a bloody pen
and never take you in,

never again