We stopped tonight ahead of time to make tomorrow last forever

and drank our coffee black in the wake of morning sins.

I twirled with the
Devil to watch
You get jealous

        And

With his final
Bow I knew we
Had finally learned
To Dance

There weren't a ton of places I even wanted to be - so I figured right here was fine.

Frightened, yes. You were still strange to me - despite your lips being just the ones I needed to find.

The rocking didn't stop, the lights were unkind, and I thought how much better it would have been to stay til the end of the party and walk to the train and wait til morning for Jersey.

Sun rays are the triumph of the cold and nowhere night.
A reward of peace - not touched -
Turn on the light.

A fall from grace through the cape of ice.
Here, a paradise where regular worlds gather.

They care not who stands at the door. Just  that it has been opened.

You made to shine

In muddy waters, rusted wires,

muted hues of two tone sweaters, tangled hair and sleep filled eyes,

were once the chains of this steadfast child,

             starving.

The end of the world
Is covered in swells of sunlit tides
That welcome the day from a celibate night
With a spell of siren wind song