Romance Often Leads To Cannibalism.

It developed fast within the body, like a virus. Sometimes, for better or for worse, two people are magnetised towards each other with a force far greater than the force with which they’re bonded to their own bodies. They develop a kind of a compass within them from which they’re directed to another – and the only vital part of their existence is to twitch the tip of it’s arrow up against the other persons in the satisfaction that they may have finally met their destiny.

They’d communicated only through flesh, cells and chemicals. They’d brushed fingers, locked eyes, spoke (briefly) and felt the trembling tone of the others voice bristle like a slow, pleasuring tongue against the others ears.

They fell into bed with an unnatural ease for two strangers – as though they were old lovers separated by death and re-united in the afterlife. The whole act felt rehearsed, as though their fate had been pre-written with such precision as to prepare them for each others bodies, tastes, fetishes and desires through years of relationships, flings, flirtations and one night stands. All of which were fiendish failing run-throughs, manufactured, it seemed, so that they would fit together perfectly like a pin to a grenade.

They weren’t aware of the time. In fact, they barely came up for air - and spared no time for food or for sleep. They were gone for each other like a man who’s thrown himself into an ocean, determined to drown.

They forgot, as people often do, about the fatality of love. In the animal kingdom, for instance, it often results in serious injury, if not death. And in their re-arranging of each other - you could see the disastrous beginnings of all life. The primordial. The primitive.

The snake at its own tail.
Chasing. Choking. Curious. Starving.