you'd sit
beside my grave
revealing
how you
really
feel

Her pale flesh pinkens
and twitches so prettily
Happily chastised

kiss me with your words
touch me with your soul
brush against me, tightly
lose your self control

brand me with haiku's
flay me with short spiked whips
crisscross the marks on my body
alliterated under a lunar eclipse

trace the edge of my demons
as they crawl beneath my skin
flick them from my opalescence
denying their claim of original sin

Oh, how I adore you!

you embrace a pattern of acceptance
for the road that I crawl upon
darkness is a cloak I wear heavily
and all I have is you, to depend on

In the house I set up on the corner
of Bitterness St and Lonely Rd
You never saw me as a mourner
just one who shared your old zip code

oh, how I adore you

you totally relate, so unrehearsed
you stroke a fever with a feathered cane
crisscrossing old scars on a new body
dancing along the same orbital plane

*oh, how I adore you

the pillow beneath my cheek
that swallows the moisture
of all of my tears
the river that became a creek
absorbing all my rejoice
the crux of my fears
the gently weeping song
that litters my heart with glass
cutting my nights
the place where I belong
and at the last
all your wrongs
become right