i am a fatal muse
skin scarred
murky scarlet
my mr. hyde
lips dripping with
lethal poison

we are
not demons
and surely
not saints

but tonight,
as we lay our worn-out bones
and swallow whole
the starless night,
as we laugh at how our world
that is drifting into
delirium thinks
love is a disease,

i see heaven in your eyes
and i know
you see it in **mine.