(low heartbeat, faint whisper)

You said love meant staying close.

I didn’t know you meant this close.

You sleep beneath my skin,

A warmth I never win.

I call it comfort, call it pain,

You drink my blood to know my name.

Your voice rewrote my inner rhyme,

I’ve been yours for all this time.

Every breath I take, you taste.

Every thought, you rearrange.

You feed, I fade — it feels like love.

I call it mercy from above.

You feed, I ache, and still I stay,

My veins your home, my heart your prey.

Parasite, say what you need,

I’m here to break, you’re here to feed.

You hum inside my bones,

I talk in borrowed tones.

You said devotion’s just decay,

And I believed it anyway.

You wear my eyes, you move my mouth,

I never learned to pull you out.

You whisper I’m your masterpiece,

But I just want the pain to cease.

You feed, I fade — it feels like grace.

I see my ruin in your face.

You feed, I ache, and still I stay,

Because I love the way you prey.

Parasite, inside my head,

You say I’d die if you were dead.

(whispers overlapping)

I built you altars in my chest.

I gave you everything you blessed.

Now I can’t tell where you begin,

Or where I end beneath my skin.

You feed, I fade — it feels like peace.

My body hums, you never cease.

I call it love, I call it right,

To lose myself to you each night.

Parasite, you made me whole,

There’s nothing left but what you stole.

(soft, broken whisper)

You said love meant staying close.

I didn’t know you meant this close.