He loved her and she loved him, <br />His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to <br />He had no other appetite <br />She bit him, she gnawed him she sucked <br />She wanted him complete inside her <br />Safe and Sure forever and ever.. <br /> <br />His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace <br />Where the real world would never come <br />Her smiles were spider bites <br />So he would lie still until she felt hungry <br />His words were occupying armies <br />Her laughs were an assassin's attempt <br />His looks were bullets daggers of revenge <br />Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets <br />His whispers were whips and jackboots <br />Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing <br />Her vows put his eyes in formalin <br />At the back of her secret drawer <br />Their screams stuck in the wall <br />Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves <br />Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop <br /> <br />In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs <br />In their dreams <br />their brains took each other hostage <br /> <br />In the morning they wore each others faces............<br /><br />Susan Alldred Lugton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/phantasy-and-imagination-by-ted-hughes/
