kissing ashes goodnight.

broken skin i am left adrift into your whirlpool

ruptured sinews laying on your altar

a lighter in your grasp as you

light fire to etch lies in my rotting tissue

pleasing a god we never believed in

the plans i made to reap your love and

replant it in our garden erode

like the colors in my eyes as i

watch you set me ablaze into wasteland and

a world you painted melts down the church drain

“were we merely a tangible expression

of some ever so evanescent overnight rush?”

our dynamic was fabricated out of reality overdose

out of knowing we would end up devouring each other

like lunatics waltzing on flames in satan’s asylum