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Want, Need, Love
Devoured in the darkness,I am left with nothing but the memory of distracting destruction.You never stay,but that’s for the best,because I’ve so much to be getting on with,and you’re so much to deal with.I’m slipping through hands that are never around to hold me,but scratch their name into my skin all the same.I won’t go…
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A Baby In Disguise
You were thirty seven,I was seventeen.You could never resist the taste of damnation.There’s fire under your fingertips,and you like to burn the wings of angels as the sun rises.You ask me to bring you a beautiful memory,resting in restless dreams of your reckless abandon,you like the way my lipstick smudges when my face falls to…
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Drunk
You stumble through an open door,losing your keys to a carpet that keeps moving as you struggle to untie your shoes,calling out my name to an empty room,hunting through the house like a drunken blood hound. I’m at home in my pillows and perfume,sewing stories together as the sun rises,you collapse against the bed with…
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Don’t Let It Come True
Last night there was a fire in the neighbourhood,and you called as soon as you noticed,your voice, betraying how much you care, despite desperate attempts to divert my eyes from how your own stare with such softness these days. I am the erstwhile, ethereal glow of the Earth,the glitter of her tearful tantrum.You told me…
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Ice
Did I ever love you,or did I just want to be held?Darling,so it goes,it’s so overplayed,this overwhelming game for two,no winners,no losers,just destruction, back and forth,and I’ll never stop being something we both fear.You ask me if I ever loved you,and I look past you,playing to the sun,big smile, big dreams?telling it and you what…