Bella Donna Requiem

This peace you offer
Pinioned prayers and platitudes

Scry in the mercury shattered

Your brittle whispers snap in the rarified air

This madness is thunder at the back of my throat

Ragged and storm weary

I tread water in your wake

Spin my tahrihim and trim the fringe

I am the terminus of fragile breath

Falling away from you

*Benedicimus Deum meum adventum et egrediente

There is solace in the blind blue moments

Let me surrender

To the baptism of despair

The upwelling catechism of *deliquescence

Souls fall clutching the flesh

Gasping for one more shredding dream

Fill the spinnaker and set sail

I am no longer a seaworthy vessel

This tethered hope you offer

Stinging nettles in my mouth

On flitting wings

Is the drone of hornets in my hair

I crave

Oblivion

And you are bound to your promise

It is my free will

To let go...

06/12/12

*God bless my coming and my going out

*melt away/decay