Blood

Full of blood
Sight unseen
I wait to sneak attack you
Attach to you
Hopefully
From beneath a crack in the hardwood
I wait
Under the scuffed and carefree shoes
Of the dancers
The forgetters
Seeming like the simulacrums
Of their real selves
When really
It's the other way around
It's a way around It

I'm an artery
If I could be a heart
I would
So I spring up
Surprise!
Flood your heart
Give blood for your veins
From the artery
The vast and timeless one
I am hooked up to
This can't be helped
Trust me I tried

I flood your heart
Whether you like it
Or not
Sometimes you like it
Sometimes you don't
Your dancing shoes become
Leaving shoes
The heartbeat's flood
Makes it too loud to talk
Or you can't hear
The train of thought
You're trying to maintain
Gripping your tracks
Like a psychotic villain
Unwilling to be washed away
By the flood
Either way
Any way
You like it or you don't
I bring it to you
The rest
Is neither up to us
Nor up for debate
We all know what's going on
Here on the dance floor
Before the stage
An altar
Or a cage
The dance floor
The stage
Together an altar
Apart a cage

Why you do or don't
(like it)
Is none of my business
My business is blood
Heartbeat and essence

I bring it to you set on its edge
I'm
Half smiling
Half sneering
Never halfway
Half hopeless
Half hopeful
Fully awake
For you
Whether you like it
Or not