Something More – by Damien B. Donnelly

If I asked you

would you sever the skin

from your body

layer by layer

and blanket me

in your living flesh?

Maybe the nights would feel warmer.

If I asked you

would you bleed the blood

from your body,

value from veins

and feed me

with the liquor that lives in you?

Maybe the pain would taste different.

If I asked you

would you ease your eyes

from your body,

sight from sockets

so I that maybe

I could understand your vision?

Maybe the emptiness would look like less

and less

endless

the end of less and less.

I never asked you

but you fucked me over

anyway

to pleasure your flesh,

to boil your blood,

to darken your eyes,

I never asked you!

Maybe

I should have asked

for something more!

Damien B. Donnelly is a Dublin born pattern maker who has worked for various fashion brands while developing a love for writing since learning the alphabet. Owner of poetry and photography blog at www.deuxiemepeau.wordpress.com, published online by FireFly, The Fable Online, published in book form with Original Writing’s Short Story Anthology ‘Second Chance’ and EyeWear Publishing’s poetry anthology ‘Nous Sommes Paris’. Left Dublin at an early age for Paris, ditched Paris for Love in London, dumped London for the flatlands Amsterdam until circling back to Paris. Often heard singing in the shower but most popular in the kitchen baking hip expanding cakes.