"city of stars and dreams, come see me take my withering soul out of the abyss and drench my thirst love my weary earthly body with thy warmth and beauty come fill this restless mind with thy bouts of intellect and wit clean this soul with thy holiness and sanctitude" i lie on the kitchen floor withered as i look on hopelessly searching and searching staking myself in the heart like the undead living but not alive i ground my sadness and filth onto the city of stars and dreams i lay on the maggot filled bed, unable to sleep the remains of my parents putrid and stinging to the senses i slap, scratch and sock so i could be able to rest, for once. i filled my dreams with creatures who horrify and unsettle but finding myself a home in their loneliness their sharp teeth filled with blood, bile and filth their stench and reeking scent i find myself belonging to them more than i ever did here.
my beloved, take me into your arms while I unravel in your quiet, this life of guilt and salt-stained breath has little left to hold, except the moment your warmth bleaches the grey from my bones. I ache. I yearn. I beg. let your brightness swallow my shadow, let your holiness slip beneath my skin until the weight of this flesh loosens and the hurt stops naming me. love me gently, with the patience of something eternal. kiss the tremor out of my mouth, drink my tears like confession, and rinse the ache from my trembling ribs. I ache for you. I yearn for you. I beg for you. not as a saint, not as salvation, but as the only tenderness left that I still know how to believe in.