Scylla / Charybdis

Scylla wants your broken hope

your broken bones your broken blood

Scylla eats your body parts

your sex your youth your coming sons

Scylla loves your golden blood

your brain your thought your solid mould

Scylla longs to be your King

your queer your dear your fucking Queen

Scylla hears your step your breath

is underneath your wrecked health

Scylla feeds your stupid pride

steals your wife your fetid life

Scylla fucks your fragile mind

your feeble kind what lies behind

Scylla strives to carry on

to vibe your womb to squeeze your lung

Scylla steals your future gone

your fractured bone your fear undone

Scylla drinks your holy thirst

your lowly gasp your wholly peace

Scylla hates your languid tears

your liquid fears your lucid years

Scylla gutless.

Image by James Knight.

Charybdis whirls

and you see pearls

Charybdis speaks

and you feel weak

Charybdis lures

and you sense cures

Charybdis shows

and you feel throes

Charybdis dances

and you see chances

Charybdis shines

and you hear rhymes

Charybdis strips

and your head flips

Charybdis kisses

and your heart hisses

Charybdis lies

and you eat flies

Charybdis hides

and you drown in tides

Charybdis sings

and your trust springs

Charybdis scuttles.

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These are two poems belonging to the series of poems published as "Scylla and Charybdis". The book can be bought here and the preface of it can be read here.