Antidote

if only I were there

to suck the poison from your blood

and keep your body in my room

soaked in the fluid from my veins

behind curtains of candle smoke

so that no traces would remain

of the toxin that managed to infect you

unless you found mine to be worse

yet nothing would stop me

from carrying you away from the crypts

of the living dead and urging you

to wander away into a new history

to harbours, fishing villages, or small town papers

to a place as it once was, to a place never lost

if you stay for what I want to reconquer, you and I

if only it were me