Orchid

Orchid Apr 2020

Emptied his stomach
Bloodless puncture in his breastplate
Breath lost before victory
Could be muttered in checkmate

Orchid Apr 2020

You miss your Mother’s hand
Being wedged between your thighs
Her intoxicating perfume
Labelled Arsenic trichloride

Fighting all your life
Pain began at circumcision
You spent Mother’s day sat
Awaiting visitation in prison

Needles gave a hug filled with warmth
You were deprived
The first time you said “I love you”
Was the time her breath took flight

Orchid Mar 2020

Confection

So strange yet wonderful, a dark life we all lead
she spent most of hers perched with a vase full of mead

Fills the crystal up, tis poison to the rim
a paroxysm of choler burnt away with a hymn.

Orchid Mar 2020

Radiance

My humanity was wrenched, torn, as he
Tossed our love on a hearse

saying

Darling
Nothing prettier than what's demanded
is allowed slurs.

#love

Orchid Mar 2020

Carbon

An artist crafted you
With fine, fine fingers
Each flare in your iris shall agree
…
I struggle to acknowledge
What you are
Convinced my eyes have been deceived

He was Bewitching

Orchid Mar 2020

Aşk

The syllables you spit do not walk hand in hand
with the words in your heart.
…
The pain tears my soul when I see you,
Ill love you till death do us part.

Orchid Jan 2020

Inflame

If it was what your heart desired,
I would ****** the sun from the skies,
Place it inside your arms,
Unbeknownst to my sightless eyes,

I would catch the gleams of the moon,
That bounce off the darkest shadows
Steal the beauty of man
And listen to the wolves harrow,

I would strike a match in a second,
Burn the world in the hottest of fires,
Gather the essence of what was left,
If it was what your heart desired.