Lover's Paradigm

In hidden meadows 'neath broken fences

Across miles of clay and mired rock

Past steaming fissures left exposed

Spouting love between royal stock

Amid the ashes left behind

And gnarled passions tangled

Crashing seas and and encrusted eddies

Lie mangled bone of king and queen.

Left for nought, all thought forsaken

Lifeless bodies tossed upon the shore

Seaweed meshed into their clothing

The hermit crab cries out for more!

Nightmares crown their blood soaked faces

As demons flaunt the kidnapped prey

Their days forever now count as blackness

And nights turn rancid by polluted force

Yet in the bartered, bleating, crevice

Hope is anchored in the soul

Tethered now, the two together

Strengthened by the rope of love

Dazzled by the sunlight streaming

Tears of joy and peace sublime

Empowered prose of lust and laughter

Create a lover's paradigm.

The heavens open in all their splendor

Lending royalty their helping hand

Now demons slain beneath the carcass

Of all that rotted yesterday....

They who were never alone

stand.
12-02-08 me