Avert not thine eyes
Thou art lost
And cowardice becomes only the suicides
The path revealed
Raise up a rock
And murder love
The past is as real as a fabled dog
That bites at it's own reflection
Wanting more at the cost of all
Thy plate is now
The soul ebbs
On this plateau
Of inertia
At the precipice
Of nothingness
But the ground is crumbling
As trust falls to scorn
Brought to our knees
Before the king
Crowned and kissed
Entropy
Assert divine right
And as the hand of God
Sever the tendrils of tenderness
Thine tears be the salt
That bring forth the thaw
Of harrowed earth
Of the pungency
Of embattled airs
And the dearth made flesh
To offer love
And consummate
This black disunion
Like disease we descend
Upon the spirit
And the body
Of The Other
Loving The Adversary
Feed upon the flies
That sing unsweet
And harmonize
With a broken song
And the want of death
In excelsis, glory be to the bereft
Excess of mercy
Betrays thine own collusion
In the blood that is on every hand
And spills from every wrist
With kisses visit on the essence
Stigmata of holy faithlessness
The parable of Godly love
The archetype of betrayal
For every tale requires an enemy
Rejoice and sing devotion
Weave together thy crimson palms
And exalt what cannot be redeemed