My Mortal Remains
written by: TheHumanAnvil
My mortal remains remember
How deeply I denied
The reason for my burial
The ink of my epitaph
My folly was in
Never letting go
Of those memories
Which chafed my soul
Like coconut on a grate
For I, the silent samaritan,
Am lead lined from hate
I loved her
Like fire loves dry wood
With passion and fury
Like lava and mercury
I loved her
So I let her suffocate
Beneath the weight of my wisdom
Behind the walls of my kingdom
I borrowed her breaths
And bartered her words
I poisoned her flowers
And caged her songbirds
She was mine you see
Or so I once thought…
Christ suffered on the cross
But not for my lot…
We, the unpardonable
The guilty of that sin
Where all men are the masters
But no woman is a queen
I loved her
So I left her to rot
Attired in allegories
Like an illuminating afterthought
And she smiled
She smiled
With my hand around her neck
She thought I was her dream
Keeping her awake
Oh, you cruel veins of mine
Why didn’t you open up and weep?
Why you, my own arteries
Did not bleed down my fingertips?
When I held her close
And drowned her dear dreams
While whispering my kisses
She swallowed down her screams
She was an angel; divine,
In love with a rage
Who vomited his agony
Page after page
She had followed me home
To save my soiled soul
To baptize a blasphemer
Who made her feel whole
If only she would have known
My love was all poison
Her steps would have crossed
Horizon by horizon
But she stayed, for me,
Till I left her as no more
Just a petal in a metal hand
And she was a flower before
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