To start Feburary, is another collaboration, haha! This time with the lovely StarlightComet! She was needed some inspiration and so we finally got to work on this piece together. All credit goes to her for the title and this was really nice to write with Kristen-- and if you don't know who she is, please go check her out. She's great.

If you fave my version please fave hers!
anathemarazor blades placed on rungs
scalpel soles until
her feet s(t)ung
and she can't help
but bite her tongue
and bleed like the bottom
of her lacerated feet
until she reaches the top
to lie in the bed of candles--
these are nightmares on wax.
her seared skin sheds itself
in scraps along the metal,
makes itself at home beside
the abandoned prayers
and the puddle of blurred
memories.
and as the surface
becomes antiquated,
she lies over the flame,
letting the heat
burrow itself in her flesh
like acid decay
in her clenching teeth.
only when her muscles scream
in silent desperation does she
rise and drag her carcass
to the straight-backed chair
nailed to the floor in front
of a vanity.