The Taste of Red
1:21 A.M. and The World is at a stand still
It started as I lay on the floor
It was wet, cold, and smelled of shit, piss and crack addicts
The party was a glorified bore
And the bathroom was my salvation
Because it resembled a white padded room
I laid there, my body numb
The floor felt like a cloud
Only because I was high
Several bleeding holes in my arms
And a pool of blood sliding down the floor’s drain
A small syringe needle still stuck in my vein
The lights were flickering because the bulbs were dying
Just like the people in this club
And the drug related seizures
I slowly closed my eyes
Hoping I’d wake up in my own bed, wrapped up in my suede sheets
Head pressed against my soft pillow
Instead, I unpeeled my eyes to a woman standing above me
Straight, black hair down to her chest
Milky white skin but not too pale
I swore I could see the ocean inside her deep blue eyes
A shining bright Red lip stick
Painted perfectly over her luscious, full lips
“Am I asleep?
Is this all a dream?
Is she a Succubus fucking me in my sleep or an angel granting me a second chance?”
It wasn’t my time to go
Not like this
It’s definitely not the latter
An Angel would never come to my recue
They’d probably kick me while I’m down
Neither they nor God ever DID answer my prayers…
As I was lost in thought, searching for an unknown answer
The room crumbled around her
Everything was pitch black, except for this woman
She’s all I can see
This woman extends her hand
And our palms met
She lifted me up off the ground
I couldn’t speak
My body was paralyzed, I couldn’t move
She wrapped my arm around her neck and dragged me to the lounge
In dire need of a comfortable place to lie
I fell onto the nearest couch
She kneeled down and whispered something into my ear as her hand gently slid down my chest
(The music was excruciating, I couldn’t hear
These Pop songs sounded like Death Metal
And the auto-tune used so often nowadays
Sounded like a live electric execution)
She slowly walked away, staring back at me as she got lost in the crowd
Burning a hole through me but cooling it off at the same time with her bright, blue eyes
A couple of minutes pass by
It felt like an eternity
I was in desperate need of another hit
Scratching and clawing around the couch
Hoping someone would’ve left some behind
Sweating like a pig stuck in a fauna
I stopped searching and my eyes focused on the other side of the room
The bar
As she was buying drinks, or so I thought, she looked over towards me…
She stared at me from across the room
She licked her lips
I got lost in her seduction
It swallowed me whole
She slowly walked up to me and sat on top of my lap
Her salacious, long, voluptuous legs
Sliding though a tight red Chanel dress
I undress her with my eyes
And I whisper to her…
“Please, don’t make me beg to get between those luscious legs
Your seductive eyes do enough
You set my body ablaze
Like a summer’s warmth.”
She stares at me and grins
She extends her arms and opens her hands
Heroin and LSD
I had an euphoric, orgasmic like reaction
She places the drugs onto the table before grabbing my arm
I couldn’t feel the needle rip through my skin
But I could feel the heroin shoot straight into my vein
The feeling was unbelievable
I don’t know if it was the arousal of this beautiful, mysterious woman sitting on my lap
Her soft ass pressing down against my cock
Or the fiendish need for another shot
Perhaps a mixture of both
It’s poetic
Trusting a woman you know nothing of
Injecting you with smack
I didn’t care
I knew what I needed
And she provided
At that moment
She became my drug
Heroin became love
I take one of those small, blotters of acid and place it into my mouth
Hoping to keep the euphoria lasting
I didn’t want it to end
We sat there shooting up together
She grabbed my head, ran her hands through my hair and pressed her soft, red lips against mine
Our tongues meet and twirl around
Exchanging drug coated saliva
She stops
And places her hands into my hands and lifts me up
She guides me to the dance floor
Where countless brainless Zombies
Hypnotically move their fragile bodies
She drags my lifeless corpse to the center of them all
She moves her body smoothly, gently, fluidly…
I stare into her blue eyes and get lost
I get lost in the sea
I can feel the waves swallow me
Drowning in this drug caused ecstasy
Red flashing strobe lights pounding out my brain
The acid in my system quickens the time; the stroboscopic effect causes the world to fall behind
She falls into my arms
She’s sweaty and fatigued from the dancing
I hold onto her, gently as I watch her try to fall asleep
I whispered into her ear…
“The color of your dress
The shining lights
The color of the wine spilled across the light filled floor
The color of the blood dripping from your lips
The color of your dilated eyes
The sight-
-The Taste of Red.”
“The minute I met you
I vowed to take you home tonight.”
I didn’t know her
I didn’t know her name, her personality
Her favorite food, her favorite music
What she does for a living
Her goals
None of that mattered to me
I fell in love with the enigma
The mystery
I fell in love with the willingness
The drugs
I fell in love with the
Taste of Red
Her kiss
Her sweet, tender kiss
Her touch
Her warm, gentle touch
The drugs
She injected me with the worst one of them all
Poisoning love.
(Source: alexcross)
