into the bliss
this moonlit kiss
of light that lingers
lengths between the
fingers
tensile touch

save you
said you

the seasons storms
had gathered all the
steel and charms
like glitter on the edge
of stitches holding
wounds that never
heal

had we become the
vessel once bright
now seasoned
with the pain and new
dark depths desires

ask me to bear you
aloft in baited breath
a beautiful balloon
of light and grace
the ground the
treacherous place
you trod angrily
and broad
sweeping the horizon
to be conquered
victor to victim

Vae victis
slain to darkness
and light
submerged
reaching
dazzled dizziness
depths

the brilliance
of its brush
the drug
forever bound
in the heart
of the grip

tinged and tainted
tingles and tilts
swirling swerving
unnerving

i was the audience
to the death
defying magix of
madness
that you craved
that lust
of powerful
powerlessness

a concubine
a constant
crave
thirst never
slaked
a claim
ere staked
again and again
in that crushed
rush

the bottom never
reaching
a gape non
beseeching

the throe of
the audience
struck
the show of
one

rockstar pupil
adulation love
what shall
this all
become

and we live
brushing moments
of its terrible ash
with a smile
and a nod

while the while
the dark fire
rages
on

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