Point blank;

White skin burned –
Invisible black
White skin stained –
Invisible dirt

Coffee kills the soul,
Or so she thought.
(after all, how else would you explain her state
when all she had done was agree to coffee.)

mouths exchanging silent secrets
hers pouring inside out outside in, his devouring,
(he couldn't live without her,
she knew that didn't she?)

stay untouched. stay safe with them.
(how hoarse they whisper now.)
he had devoured her heart when she wasn't looking. watching. guarding.
(coffee stains on her collar.)

she was his love rose.
Beautiful; fragile.
(and trapped in a glass dome of eternity,
sealed with a kiss.)

and what would happen when,
the last petal fell.
(didn't she realize that,
parallel lines meet at point blank.)