Bloody Petals

Love can be gruesome

I was a garden you kept tilling
Thorns growing instead of flowers
I pierced your skin, the blood kept filling
Where my roots reach out and they devour.
You sat and watered, you planted seeds
Still I refused, refused to grow. 
You gave me sun, you pulled the weeds
You took my scars from head to toe.
Now the tall grass. It grows around
The house, the fence, the hill below 
It soon gives way to frozen ground
My breath now caught in falling snow.
An arctic slumber, a dream of you
Sadness slowly faded to mirth
The frost receded, the cold withdrew
The warmth it came, it came to earth.
Now I fill my belly with sweat and tears
I stretch my vines beneath your stare
Until the pain, it disappears
And we bloom into this love affair.
I climb your body, digging in
I find your heart and there it settles
Flowers where my thorns had been
Now give way to blood stained petals.