I've spent a lot of time staring at myself In the mirror, thinking that Love looks like sacrifice. See, where I come from, Devotion twists itself into ****** forms. Agony breathing between a lust for heaven or hell, Misery dripping like blood onto concrete. Love stains my hands red and the offering is such: Here lies this contorted body, Begging you to dismantle it. Gut me of my delusions and Carve out my smile to mount on your wall. Here lies this mutilated body, Unrecognizable in the face of faithfulness, Staring into the eyes of adherence like Its got a gun to my head. Make me stand to look at this body. Maybe its my misconstrued fantasies, I bid myself to Love and it burns. Take these confessions, This ******, Write about it like its poetry When it reads like atonement. Here lies this shrine of a body, I flinch when you cup your hands around my face, A knife pressed against my throat Slicing into my mumbled apologies. I am sorry I cannot soften the corpse I am becoming. I've spent a lot of time looking at you, Thinking that Love may look like resurrection. Rebirth in your softness. Here lies this reviving heartbeat of a body, If I am the sacrificial altar, Get on your knees and start praying for my resurgence. I'll see you back when it is bloodless and lifeless, When its been emptied of its contents and is just the frame Of our offerings. I've had Love to die for Your Love is holy, Something to live for.