Red Venom

Like spiders nesting beneath the skin

Her words floated around me

With tattered eyes and red swollen lips

Venom lived in her blood

And as she softly bled

She painted white roses red

Waterfalls fell from her cobalt eyes

My Crimson Queen's cheeks once so bright

Now drained into white rose sheets

As her wrist poured venom

She softly died

And painted the castle red