Your Smiles!

In the split second you touched my lips with yours,

I saw your naked heart

Smiling gleefully at my wounds.

You brought me with your stinging kisses into the

World, kicking and screaming,

But you still smiled happily at me.

You dragged me through the mud, made

Me wallow in the blood of my own kind, and of others,

All the while, smiling at me.

You washed me clean of all the sins that

Clung to me like stinking slime,

And yet you smiled sweetly at me.

You whirled me about like wet clothes in a spin-dryer,

And hung me out in the desert sun,

But never stopped smiling at me.

You put me through the meat grinder that crushed

My flesh and bones to pulp,

Always, always smiling at me.

You led me past the meat grinder, through the shimmering air, to

The golden orb hidden in the darkest corner of your heart,

And cheered me on with a dazzling smile.

When at last I lay down, on the bed of my own making,

You brought a sledgehammer down on my head,

But never gave up smiling at me.

You wrapped me close in your sweet arms, and softly touched

My throat with the sharpened tips of your fangs,

And smiled most lovingly at me.

I felt my lifeblood flowing out in a warm stream into

Your mouth that fastened on my neck, while

Your bloodshot eyes smiled at me.

I know, my only sigh of relief will come with my last breath,

When you hand me over to Death,

And give me your wondrous smile.

My body, turned cold and hard six feet under,

Or torn asunder, or burnt to ashes and scattered in the wind,

Will still bring a smile to your lips.

I know you'll keep smiling at the flowers that will bloom

Above my head, to lift the graveyard gloom,

And I will smile back at you, Life, at last!