How long have you stayed awake
To forge the night from your eyes?
I wish to see
What your scarlet heart has dreamed
Beyond the realm of sleep.
When you begin to sigh
Let the pain slip by
From hands that have shielded your face,
Under covers, where blood is to taste
From marks where the world has bitten
Your neck to the spot of your flood
In gulps of air, twisting as tempests.
Let me love
While the Earth scorns itself,
While the graves mourn themselves,
As I bleed tears upon this soil
To grow something that shall never foil.
My eyes begin to say to myself
That to find the woman of my kind
Makes to love, her remedy from above,
While currents dance, as rivers toss
The startled beauty of so much loss.
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