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