There is salt in your eyes
salt in the sweat of your palms
more salt in your urine
than a glass full of ocean
You are salt
and rub yourself into her wound
whenever you can
sting her with your own pain
You are salt
and drop yourself into her
like a shaker with no top
clog her veins
until the blood freezes like ice
and her heart arrests
You and her did not start this way
You are salt
and can melt ice as well
but choose not to
For salt also preserves that which is hurt
You inflict and sustain pain
Because that is the only way you know how
to love.