Here I lay,

Between the edge of my own chaos and reality -

And you stand beyond, blurring the lines.

Your caress continues to linger,

From my skin, to my core,

Did you use it to guide my way?

Here I fall,

Beyond the edge of my own chaos and ruin -

And wherever you choose for me, I will go.

You have taken control,

And I have no will to fight it.

As I have given all of me, to you.

Here I land,

Broken, into the deepest parts of me.

Will you keep what’s left,

After forcing me over?

Oh lover, why did we begin?

We knew we were designed to end.

But it was so easy to hold you -

To love you.

What did we do to deserve our fates?

Now we’re at the end of us,

And darling, it feels like tragedy.

What else could describe my agony?

Oh beloved, we fought so hard.

By the end our knuckles were bloodstained -

Our hearts were bruised -

Perhaps we created our own casualties.

After all, we couldn’t fight fate.

So we fought each other,

Until there was nothing left to love.

But your bittersweet kiss still lingers

Against my lips,

Down the columns of my spine.

I feel echoes of you in my bones,

Leaving remnants of your affection.

I can still sense the warmth of your embrace,

Long after you have left my side.

What a fool I am lying awake,

Basking in misery from your memory.

Do you even remember,

What it was like to hold me -

To love me?

Please tell me lover,

How do I move on from you?

I am still waiting for time

To erase the lingering memories of you.

But until it does I will hold my sorrow,

Like you once held me.

Perhaps someday I will not call to you,

But lover today is only the first step I take

To rebuild the peace you took from me.

Oh lover we had to end didn’t we?

We must have been calamities

To make way for something new.

We always felt the truth didn’t we?

Between each kiss,

Each caress,

Tell me you could feel our hollowness too.

I know it was not easy to leave,

But you have always known what is right.

And even if it feels like agony

We have to - I have to - let go.

For all my efforts, I cannot erase you.

So I will remember holding you,

Loving you,

Losing you.

Until I can say goodbye.

And the next time I see you,

It will not hurt.

Because in our tragedy

We learned that we can love,

And we can move on.

She held me like the secret only she could endure.

I wanted her to guide me to paradise,

But she only buried me under shattered stars -

And made her eyes my only guiding light.

I guess she could only love me,

If she held all control.

{She knew how to shape my broken core,

As if she had done it to lovers before.}

It was in her smile, the shade of her lips.

The crimson stained perfection was tinted,

With secrets of desire - only she knew.

She held every ancient lover against her tongue.

The taste awakened every deprivation I locked inside.

It demanded to own all of me -

Every peace of my being, every shred of yearning.

{She only knew love by pressing me beneath her,

Weaving her fingers through the tangled strands of my heart.}

{And she knew I needed - craved - submission to her,

As long as she exalted my name in her unbridled release of satisfaction.}

So I let her have me in all her crooked ways,

Because she only crafts love through torment -

And I was growing used to it’s rough caress.

The pain - the pleasure - it makes her feel whole.

I can feel it surging in the crevasses beneath her skin.

She has let no other, drink it from her silhouette -

I will be the first to let it become the form of my soul.

{Somewhere, beyond her unwavering agony,

She longs for a lover who find tenderness inside her.}

{I can feel her letting me in through the pain she holds,

And beneath it all, I can find what she calls, love.}

I can store everything she refuse to let go.

Let it filter from her kiss against my lips,

And it will rest with the longing in my soul.

There she will share her untold truths

In whispers buried under her shattered heart.

I can feel her answers in its faltering beats.

{After all, we know, flawed is the only way to be -

If we want to be anything, at all.}

I have always loved you,

Ever since your first whisper

From the profound hollows of my soul.

I swear -

I could feel your heart, pulsing

In harmony with my own.

I wonder -

Who spilled ambrosia down my spine,

To make you so divine?

Even if I have not crafted you myself,

I can feel it in your soul

Resonating against my lungs.

Perhaps you carry, my breath in yours.

You have always been apart of me,

But I do not deserve your grace.

I know you’ve felt the waves

Of agony coursing through me.

How do you find sanctury in me still?

I will bear your crosses as my own,

And make you my only purpose.

I will relinquish the devils I hold -

So you can be the only presence

That I give reverence in my soul.

You are the only peace I’ve know -

The only peace I’ve craved -

Beyond all the pain I have store.

So I will tame the beasts in me,

If only I can cling to your embrace.

Until I have reaped enough virtue

To be apart of you.

I have walked in the garden -

Won’t you join me there?

Where I have seen divinity

And let Her guide me.

She sees me through,

Tells me not to worry -

Shelters me from serpents,

That long to bring me chaos.

Have you been to the garden?

Divinity claims there is no evil there.

But I have seen what lies beyond -

And I long to know Hiss truths.

I have seen paradise,

And it is not what Divinity claims.

Beyond the garden I know freedom.

And desire is sweeter tasting -

Than any fruit Her garden could bare.

Won’t you join me?

You see I am entangled with sin.

Dance with me in His calamity,

And you will see truth -

Even beyond His lies.

I adore Him so dearly,

But He holds no favor for me.

Divinity longs for me -

Cares for me.

So I let Her take me,

If only for a moment.

I have walked in the garden,

And cherished it’s shadows.

I have given my heart to Him -

And my body to Her.

Join me, somewhere in between Them.

Oh my sweet sapphic lover,

I have been overcome with longing for you.

I dreamt of kissing your rose petal lips,

Since I first saw the enchantment of your smile.

I have become your humble servant.

Even if you do not ask it of me, I will worship you.

I pray someday you will take me as yours

And let me show you a love so tender,

You weep - overcome by exaltation.

I only want to be apart of you,

Until there is nothing left of me.

Oh what a wonderful fortune it would be,

To be loved by someone as precious as you.

I know such a fate is only fantasy,

As you are a wonder few get to experience.

You do not demand to be loved,

For you have been haunted by lost loves

That have made your heart grow colder.

I want to show you that love can make you glow,

And I will do all you desire of me, then more.

As long as you are willing to have me,

I will be yours, my sweet love.

Must we go through this again?

How do you not tire of this cycle,

Of trying to love all the wonders of the earth?

Your fascination for their simplicity

Will surely end in your fall from grace.

Yet - I cannot fathom why -

You desire them still, and revel in their affection.

You let forest men, tattooed with their tales,

Dazzle you with the careless charm in their garden smiles.

Perhaps their enchantment in the endless constellations -

Dancing so brilliantly through your mind -

Is why you twinkle for their simple ocean eyes.

I do not understand your adoration for them,

As if any being could resist your complexities.

You find shame that you were made to be intangible,

And must I watch as they are lost to you again?

He will say you have grown too cold, so distant -

And he fears you float to high for his embrace.

So let him stay rooted were he belongs.

Do not grieve him, for he is foolish for leaving you -

More foolish than you are for loving him.

Then you’ve go and find solace in women of the sky.

You love how they hold the clouds in their laughter,

And let them lure you by dancing together in their sunlight.

I cannot believe you let them sway you so easily,

Just because they make their agony look beautiful,

By making love to you in their rain -

As they claim to marvel in your breathtaking divinity.

But I try to tell you, these creatures are all the same,

And you always find the most ruinous of lovers.

Your stardust kiss will burn her lips,

And she will shun the divinity she once loved in you.

Though she may say she is beyond the earth

She cannot understand the burdens you hold,

When you speak of galaxies beyond her little world.

Your infatuation demands you give your all to them,

But I beg of you do not, they are tethered to the earth -

And you are much to seraphic to love them.

I cannot fault you for your pointless desire -

For who in all the universe could fault you?

But shamefully I desire you, in all the same ways,

So for our miserable attachments, who has been the bigger fool?

Tonight you will make me your safe haven.

I will let you lay claim to my body - use it -

To store the pain you carry alone.

As you fall apart, I will pull you closer.

I can be the - piece - peace you long for.

Your heart craves so deeply, so dangerously -

It will never let you rest through the night.

So let me lay with you, my lover.

Let me coat your anguish with ecstasy,

And we will surrender ourselves to each other -

Till dawn brings a new day.

In the morning I will make you my home.

I will let you hold me - keep me -

So I cannot slip away from this, from us.

There is a hollowness in you that I fill,

And in return, you've become apart of my being.

My heart is a fickle creature, but now,

It craves only your strength, your affection -

So I will let you rise with me, my lover.

We will learn stability in each other,

And let the dusk turn into night -

As always, we will love again.

Fate had given me the gift to see all,

To observe the rise and fall of it's children's destinies.

Never have I been apart of the tales they weave,

Until our fates intermingled, tangled like puppets on strings.

I saw it all - our love, our tragedy - each moment so clear,

And I did not want to be apart of your narrative,

But we can never undo what fate has decided for us.

I loved you so much it hurt, and I always held you tight -

As if my arms were enough to keep you unharmed.

You were a fierce warrior but loved me like a gentle poet,

And you wielded tender words of love just as easily as a sword.

I watched each time you went to fight a war that was never yours,

And I knew you would return, just as I saw the day you wouldn't.

Yet my heart shattered each time you kissed me goodbye.

Never have I wanted to change fate's design so desperately,

But I would have done anything to save you, my love.

You fought so gallantly just to survive, but it broke you.

I tried so desperately to change what was foretold,

But it was not enough, and in the end, we were both powerless.

It seems heartache was our destiny, to rise and fall,

Like I have seen so many do before us.

Fate cursed me to see all, but can it not spare me a glance,

To show how I could possibly live on without you?

I still mourn - our love, our tragedy - years after you are gone.

Because it is cruel that you were build to be a champion of the world,

And I was chosen as the prophet - your lover - left to witness it all.

I still try to cut the strings, that bound us to this destiny,

So that when our fates meet again, maybe then, we could change it.

I was born with stardust ingrained in my bones,

And I held a light so dazzling in my soul -

That my mother could not bear to look at me without weeping,

Because she knew the burdens the world would give me.

You were born with strength in your heart,

And a wisdom past your years from your mind -

That your father would not gaze at you without fury,

Because he knew someday you would surpass everyone - even him.

I grew to shine so bright, that galaxies erupted in my stride -

While my mother had her last breath, and said goodbye.

You became a force to be reckoned, conquering any challenge that came -

While your father walked away, without a word, and never returned.

Those were the first of many tragedies we would learn to hold.

We grew to be so great, and the world named us heroes.

I let my light glow so radiant that darkness would not dare to prevail.

And with all your wit and power, you defeated any enemy that threatened the peace.

They cheered for our glory, and gave resentment to our failings.

But no matter what the world felt, we would protect those who needed us -

And they always needed us.

But heroes are not meant to last forever,

Like the stars, I would go supernova in my final blaze of glory.

You would hold the world on your shoulders, till it finally broke you.

Of course we knew our happy endings were never guaranteed -

But that’s the price we paid to save those, who couldn’t save themselves.

The world will remember what we have done for it.

I was a guiding light of hope, designed to keep the shadows at bay,

While you were a beacon of strength, built to defend the innocent.

Our legacies will live on long after we are gone,

And soon our burdens will be passed to a new heart, and a new star.

We will fade, as all heroes eventually do -

But I will never forget how your strength melted to my touch,

And you knew just how to love the darkness in my light.

So let us end as heroes do, fighting with all our might.

And like we have done with everything before,

You and I will do it, together.