The Imperial Graveyard

And I am brokenhearted
With only the comfort of gravity pulling me closer
Infinite skies open to God's merciful gaze
Watching me follow a road lit by the moon and stars.

The winds rush to my side
Carrying secrets passed on by the songs of nightingales
Sing slowly & let my eardrums savour the sound
Of his name repeated like a mantra to my soul.

Lead me to the soreness of his sorrows
I will take from him what he thought could not be shared
He will see the symptoms of time drawn across my face
And watch his disease reach out & clutch onto me.

Until I am a lonewolf
Lost in an illusory light
Crushed and beaten by the bones that feed me
Missing the taste of his bloodied saliva.

And I am brokenhearted
With only the comfort of gravity pulling me closer
Infinite skies open to God's resentful gaze
Watching me follow a road lit by the fires of Hell.

Death Deferred

Evermore, she carries shards of his heart
Bloodied hands flinching at each new cut
His aches pressed against her fingertips
As he lay resting in the hands of Entropy.

Tissue swelling around her bones
The oceans welling in her eyes
Death belling in her ears
Her silent aggression quelling the call of Hell.

Perhaps she stood within the doorframe
Guarding him with the love of God
Fragments of his torture finding comfort in her arms
His struggling grip on life nipping at her skirt.

Though his thoughts linger towards darkness
He knows God & God knows him
However scarred & broken his body
His spirit remains radiant.

She knows the feeling of his absence
Before Death even whispered his name
So when it comes to knock at his door
She will take one more look at me in the mirror..

And I will answer.

Anger

Tell me..

What does it feel like?
When the red paint dries
And you're still dripping with anger
From the ground up to the Heavens.

Kill until the shade of red satisfies you
With it, paint me a picture of death & agonizing torment
Remind me how the thorns on the walls of pain cut through you
As you fell into the hole it swallowed you in.

Share with me your piercing desires
To feel the boom of my heart silence
Hold back your mortal grace & godly mercy
And lower me from the ground down into the ashes of Hell.

And I will kill until the shade of red satisfies me
With it, I'll paint you a picture of anger & excruciating fixation
Remind you how light blinded & deafened me
As I left the comfort of my warm darkness.

Let me tell you..

What it feels like
When I crack through the red paint
And I'm still dripping with anger
From the ground down into your elusive heart.

And yet still..

I love you.

À Quatre Mains

And if music were words
I have told him my deepest secrets
Pressed his ear against my chest
"Can you hear the shuffling pieces?"

Even in darkness barely touching black
The tips of my fingers dipped in white
He hovers over me like my flats & sharps
As though somewhere he noticed a flood of light.

I taught him a song beside me
A song in which I would follow his pace
When he moves, I move
Whichever route he takes, I trace.

Every mistake he has made
Must have been a reason to hear my voice
Even in years after those musical nights
Taunting me has always been his method of choice.

Hello my Sun

He once held you in the emptiness of his heart
The sheen of tears still glistening on his hands
I mourned the loss of life inside his own
Watched him lay parched on my dismal sands

Nightmares lay awake at his side
Yet somehow, he finds comfort in such a dark hole
Never will the memory of you be forgotten
No matter how aggressively it tears at his soul

To feel something..anything..
Is to hope that you are still homeward bound
To know pain & heart-rending loss
Is to know you can still be found

Perhaps you roam close to my womb
Since from her arms you were torn
The taste of life taken from you so abruptly
Dare I say you were promised to a Winterborn.

One Man's Possession

Had they sighted the scar in my chest
Felt the jagged abrasions on my cage
They would know love not to be theirs
That I was taken against all my rage.

The battle against starvation
Drew me closer to a blood-seeded bait
Placed not by his hand nor mine
But by the insistent hands of fate.

With every moment spent in reprimand
I painted songs of sorrow onto the walls of this cell
And so with every breath stripped of its chords
I calmly descended into the ashes of Hell.

An agreement sub rosa
Between my God & a fiery Demon
Promised to the King of darkness
A Queen to incubate his semen.

Still I dreamed he'd come to me post deliverance
With my putrid name doused in defamation
My heart tarnished & thrashed about
And bored flesh crying out in desperation.

Even in all my pretentious rampant protests
I slept each night curled up in my hollow chest
He brought to me a yearning for aberration
As I fought each night for a moment of rest.

..had they sighted the scar in my chest
Felt the jagged abrasions on my cage
They would know love not to be theirs
That I was taken by this venerable sage.