Adoring Broken Skin

Seraphim lips plant flowers in the hollows of my 

Throat 

Your eyes blink like galaxies vanishing 

Let me disappear into the silver and the violet 

Let me die in the cradle of your stare 

Faces pressed into pillows sideways half-lidded morning gaze 

That’s the moment my heart breaks 

Because I know you’ll never feel the potency of the drug that is my love 

For you

this is the best that I can do

Hold your pianist fingers in my warrior hands but gentle 

tell you the truth and swallow your endearing disbelief 

Hurt rushes into your arteries when you find reflections of your scarred skin 

But all I see are lightning strikes and the willow that 

Survived it all.