in my dreams,
(dreams that run through my blood)
you surface. there’s
no light, no lies but
only truth and us
our lives bare
in the dark
as the thread tangles
as I pass and you pass by
as our eyes meet at the point
where love is nothing (can’t be anything)
and
you see something deeper
behind those eyes. I see nothing.
in dreams, dreams
that run through my blood (iron
hiding in my blood)

there’s no waking up
only us and the truth
that unravels as we
pass. a moment of
touch that shatters
my shadow
in the dark.

in dreams
(dreams that run in my blood)
you surface. and wreck my insides
with a look.
till there’s no reality
no illusions
only us and truths.
not love. (never love)
only truth that
lies bare
so hollow
so full
we can’t look
away. only
deeper.

(into nothing.)
(into everything.)

into your eyes.
into my eyes.

into the distorted reflection
that surfaces on my
blood that drips,
bleeds from fresh scars.

in dreams,
dreams that run in my blood
(I drowned and you surfaced).

in dreams,
dreams that run in my blood

I drowned (I woke up).

There's a beat in my nerves
dragon’s breath, kisses of fire
blazing in my heart. I’m made of steel.
Sharp against the edges. Heavy.

  can you hold the weight?
(on your knees, crawling through burning flowers.. your shoulders are dropping down)
  can you feel the cut edge?
(prickle of blood, pain. let me see beneath the layer of your skin)

There’s a beat in my nerves
dragon’s blood running through my veins. Fire away at my skin, golden scales &
your words
                break
   apart.

can you break through?
(pierce through my armour & touch my bare skin and— shatter this steel heart)

In a flutter, like a sprinkle of rain
     you entered my life

   leaving a trail of stardust, where it was
too dark
    and now,

    a glitter of lights shimmers in the depths of my soul

there is blue caught
        in the lining of his skin,

he’s glowing in the dark

moonlight spills from his fingertips
as they graze the sky
his pale fingers dipping into the
black sea that floats over him,
followed by
    his hands, his arms, his head till
he is swollen whole

by the night sky

a ripple of stars
turning tsunamis worlds away

and the night echoes with
howls of wolves

as the moon sets into his throne
.
.
.

there is yellow caught in the lining of her skin
   she’s fire burning in the light
risen from the earth

her earth-stained fingers grazing the sky
her black eyes piercing into the
blinding blue

before—
she dives into up into the sea
                                 and spreads her flames

a hot white steam washes over the world
and clouds forms

a beat, then. the cloud breaks apart
rain drips down

the earth soaks up sunlight
  and spouts out flowers
blooming with a rainbow

as the sun sets into her throne
.
.

Baby, I am dancing in your mind
to your heartbeat
that drums out of beat
and my limbs are tangled up

I heard an ancient song,
once a upon time
singing in your bones but now—

now, I can only hear
silence

Baby, I am dancing in the dark
(when did the lights turn of?)
and my limbs are tangled up

I heard an ancient song,
once a upon time
singing in your bones but now—

now, I can only hear
silence

i once heard,
love

now, I can only hear—
death

(watched you fall from your
mind, and now
I am clinging to the air
watching the air slip
through gaps of my tangled fingers)