AN EXORCISM OF LUST: Poetry for the Damned

AN EXORCISM OF LUST

by Stephanie M. Wytovich

 

We were in the car

You put on “Come with Me Now” by the KONGOS

I laughed

This was my song

And you were the one who introduced me to it

All those weeks ago

Before I hid

Before you ran away

You handed me the whiskey bottle

I drank and drove down country roads

We sang

We danced

We pulled over

I came with you

You came with me

Now

Then

Always

The KONGOS continued to play

We looked at the sky

Threw up our hands

Screamed

Screamed loud

Screamed together

And that was the first time I felt love

Naked in the woods

My gypsy soul exposed

You, standing there

Holding my heart

Between your teeth

Bleeding

Broken

And dead

But happier than ever before