Snake Bite

What it is like living with/being married to an addict

I cannot suck this poison from your soul
Liquid gold venom sliding down your throat
Fermenting into anger and longing within your veins
You are hungry, starving, aching, for your prey

Your fix, dying slowly, consumption from within
A knawing, endless aching, eating you alive
Spreading its snake like tendrils through your heart
Until you are eaten by it's jaws of life

Fangs of depression and listlessness linger
Darkness and loneliness surrounding me like coils
Rattling words that pierce through my flesh like needles
Slithering secrets through my tree of life

Scales of regret as you stalk my trust 
An antidote,a remedy for this shedding of skin
Until I am suffocated by your tender grasp
And swallowed whole by your existence

I place my mouth to the wound that seeps
Sucking with all that I am
Spitting, swallowing until all that I taste
Is the twisted truth of your poison.