I want to listen to you breathe every night baby
I must leave in the morning darling, my aunt needs me

I need you
You have me

I want all of you, all the time
My loved one we will be together again 
I cannot wait
You must darling you must 

(she nestles into him, lifting her lips to his ear lobe, softly biting it with her teeth and probing his inner ear with her wet tongue, he sighs heavily)

Without the sound of you there is no reason to live, 
to work, to create

Keep me in your memories
My treasure, you are beyond memories
This is too difficult and I am not free to chose what my heart desires 
I know, I know, let me love you one last time 

(their bodies warm under course blankets, they touch like starving creatures at a lavish meal, hesitant, messy and hungrily, after their heart rates settle…)

I ask that you carry this gift with you, most importantly on your breast at night

(with those last words he draws a knife from the bedside table and severs his left ear in one motion, splattering blood across both of them, like paint flicked from the end of a brush)

Thank you my darling, I’ll cherish it always 

(rosy blossoms spread across her cheeks as she licks her lips and smiles, a bright hue dashing across her mouth as he leans down to accept her embrace, the sunset colors of his own making running down his jaw and binding them together)