River floods make planted buds Unclean, sweating blood for the seeds Hidden in unfound prophets. The pollen prophecies hinder The far lost lovers, star-crossed With their eyes to the skies and Hands reaching deep in the seas above. We wait, silent, and wonder. Swamping Our stomata vision with couplets Formed from stigmas of all the years. Rhyming, but avoiding the answers We crave. From cradle to grave is not Enough. Searching signs and science Beyond our learning, lessons hard learnt From love itself compromise the beauty And mistakes found on the surface of An eclipse – blinding men and hanging Martyrs from the stark tip of a half moon. Sharp, revealed, they sacrifice what the church Could not. Would not. Poison or paradise? We will never be sure but it still fuels The passion and bakes the bread we need To eat and live. The sour lips of life tasted Sweet before, but the flowers have died Now and left their ****** marks on The garden path. When we were young The stigmata did not stain so much. Clandestine and concealed to the world, Invisible - striving for the word to be known, But strife was not The Way. Doth with their Own death they curse those who engendered Them, like Faustus, who flew but twas All in feign, for he fell in vain - and did not live To taste the wine. Yet fallen are we all For the sake of those two lovers – Biting deep into the rigid skin of solid Poison. The sickly sweet juice running Down the side of her cursed lip As the serpent swept their souls away. A sharp tongue will keep the commands At bay like spears in the sides Of the stammered. The swollen dagger Hearts were bitten by a Cancer Of the stars, spreading like luminaries Devouring ***** by *****. Only Your hands are free to tell the story now To bathe in the rich fountains of new-born Life, flowing from river to river carrying Moses baskets and delivering us to Our stolen caskets.