Bleed

Tripping on our lost love affair
Falling down the rabbit hole where right side up is upside down, and left is right, and right is left…
This spongy, muddy-walled, psychedelic cage my failed eternity
These paisley broodings bend my mind with their tantra prisms…
Your eyes… My downfall
Your beauty… My heartache
Your mind… My loneliness
Your soul… My bittersweet
My desire… My death
My love… My funeral
Time slides down the walls like red candles dripping down my spine
Night swallows my breath, sucks up the moon
Your words wrap around my soul, bind me to your will –
Knife blade dull and rusty on the bedside table
Beside my fate
Angels unclip their wings in our catacomb
In the corners, shadows unzip their demons
To seep beneath our skin
Lime green haze of romantic rhetoric
Fills the hours with crumpled words –
Poetic declarations in reverse
The feast feeds your hunger but sucks the dreams from my eyes…
Hollow, hazel-pupiled cadavers
That can’t rest within this heart hell…
Where loves bones crack and wail in the fire
Woe pulls the wings from the dragonflies
Despair smothers the stars
Despondency disembowels dreams

Death mocks mourning

Tonight I will bleed for you
Your indifference a mortal wound; I fall away
Then will your warm hands lovingly pet my cold skin?
Caress my emptiness with longing?
Your souls numbered days are showing in your eyes –
Why are all your mirrors broken?
3 and 1… 3 and 1… and 3 and 1…
Where right side up is upside down, and left is right, and right is left…
Left…
Damned…
Loveliness gone savage
Rancid remnants
Tonight I will bleed for you
But
Tomorrow you will bleed for me