the amazing devil archive

please let her live just one more day cos she is so much more than all her scars

and he holds her close just to keep the world at bay

and you rip my ribcage open and devour what’s truly yours

farewell wanderlust, you’ve been oh oh so kind you brought me through this darkness but you left me here behind

and he’ll say oh how oh how unreasonable how unreasonably in love I am with everything you do

and the door shuts behind me I breathe in the air and say yeah, well I’m sorry too

I wish I’d known these stones were something I could save

a storm is coming on

she kisses my eyelids and I breathe

think back to paddling pools (I need a drink or two) and rainy days where they would

the wind and its shackles, the old fishers tackles the sea and its waters, every unwanted daughter

but I held your hand as you shook in the middle of the night without waking you said not yet not yet

cigar burns and scar skin ripping bone and nail and gland

run from you, I’ll run until I begin to understand what holy men really mean when they speak of sand and sons and seams and symphonies and sweat and sex and sin

and when the rain came down I made a vow out to the gods please let her live just one more day