Should Night Arise

Should night arise within your heart
Your face become the haunting shade
Your hand become the instrument
By which an innocence departs
Step not again into this realm
Of guardians and iron might
Who limb-from-limb shall liberate
The dark to give back to the light

Prayer

Give us this night
In forgiving dreams
Alive and in love
For tomorrow
Give us these children
We wished we could be
Scarred not by yesterday's
Sorrow

In a Word

Breath becomes
Vibration setting
Cataclysm or repair
Of a new illumination
Born of hope or dark despair

Not Guilty

I am forgiven I am free
Though the sun has set
Your eyes are upon me
Though darkness
Never bring to light
That dark too dark to see
Your gaze is all I need

The Death of Me

Down to death did I dive
Deep into this sunken heart
Where none dare go
But for love
And with holy strength of
The fabled god
Drowned the kraken
Within its own blood

Holy Hot Damned

My timer stopped
My heart beats
I live
But dead
To all but you
Eternally
Through holy Heaven
And the hottest Hell

Reprieve

The heart cage
Lock rusts
In the salt
Of her ocean tears

A Small and Childlike Spell

The nights in which
Her crown sometimes slips
The princess wakes asleep

Defense Mechanism

The ink of the octopus
Darkens iridescent water sky
Sails unharmed
Into starlight

Love I Lie

Love
I love
I love your kiss
Your care
Your hand
Your word
Lie
I lie
I lie awake
Unkept
Unfelt
Unheard