Strutting

Strutting whores of hate

strike out at the world

       hating themselves for loving you

bubbling mud overflows

and demands to be heard

faltering void beneath feet

       hating themselves for wanting you

deceptive creatures

crawling under skin

a loathsome town

of evil guts

       hating themselves for hungering for you

bottomless crater

scraped walls and

dangling truth

shudder of acerbic

words not seen

or touched but

existing in

malignant eyes

       hating themselves for all you do

nightmares in

beds of hate

flowing blood

down streets

of acrimony

       hating themselves for adoring you

buried deeply

in scarlet bulbs

of hatred

bottomless crater

of death looming

larger than pain

       hating themselves for touching you.