If I lay in death, entombed in hells breath
Would you wager with mortal blood,
Dine on demon veins ?
Would you bathe in fires, and poison the light?
Lick the knives of pretty lives ?

Would you pay the dark dogs before hells gate?
Would you devour the bones, fleshless, stinking?
Would you fracture Hades obsidian eye?
Would you enchant the black opal mother,

Have her weep on her coils,
Pour venom needles to bowl?
Would you shed your seeds in the darkness?,
Strip your mortal flesh and mix your spell ?

Would you stand in immortal darkness,
Drumming with hell?
Would you paint in your velvet bloods
and name me

─ Your picture perfumed winged Raven of hell?


© Arnay Rumens /  Sol Poet 2014