Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Essence

Essence: leaking
This heart seems to remain
The face: bleeding
These teeth seem to remain

Essence: glowing
It falls like tears from a hollow face
The face: recoiling
It moves a like an old dog in a race

Essence: seeping
Into her cream-like crystal-like dreams
The face: blinded
By smoke rising above into far ancient beams

Essence: creeping
Into her features her creatures her death
The face: speaking
Into her ears her fears drinking up her breath

Essence: falling
Straight down away into the dark places
The face: melting
Dripping onto my secret hallowed places

Essence: dripping
Onto her breast and her broken form
The face: hiding
From her tragic blue eyes once so warm

Essence: congealing
On her smooth pale skin on her breast
The face: blood blushing
Breath stirring the waves in her warm nest

Essence: evaporating
Away in the air not letting her rise
The face: now leaning
On her stomach hearing her pulsing prize

Essence: fabricating
A connection more than flesh can afford
The face: selflessly
Watching wearing a mask not so abhorred

Essence: now remaining
Where it should not have ever been found
The face: beholding
Staring intently at the tomb the hole in the ground

Essence: fermenting
A wine no woman can swallow always it burns
The face: raw bleeding
A blood no man can truly taste because he never learns

Essence: discoloring
Her skin so pale so scarlet let her lie alone
The face: autonomous
Of her now ready await the end sinking into bone


But this heart seems to remain....