"That soft animal of my body, wants to swallow you whole. Because you’re safe there, because when..."

“That soft animal of my body,

wants to swallow you whole.

Because you’re safe there,

because when she opens her jaws

and says your name,

she is filled brimming with you.

Because she can see the entire sky in you.

She wants to show you that starless night,

at the bottom of her stomach.

The seas that live there,

those hollow husks,

that endless cusp of dawn.

How you, inside of her,

turn her into pinpricks of light.

And how she loves you like a wound

on her paw that leaks constellations

instead of blood.

She wants to eat you alive

because with you, inside of her,

it’s sunrise.

With you, inside of her,

it’s alive.”

- Azra.T., “Starless Nights”