damaged

disparate

divergent souls,

breathing in

each other’s winds,

exhaling knives of ice,

slashing innocent hearts,

chunks of forgotten sweetbread

incoherent

disembodied souls

emptying each other’s mouths,

buried treasures of

once long-ago deep kisses,

now sheltered in our crossed arms

defending forbidden embraces

fallen angels

stifling each other’s eyes,

till vanished, joyless,

pregnant with wariness,

hearts ashen,

baffled, vanquished,

severed, crestfallen,

sealed shut, inexorably

ever mistrustful of each other’s gorgeous light