fracture

    
tiny fractures over rib and heart
all lie of this hurt
for inside me, I bleed quietly
 
you broke me with your beauty
cut me with a smile so loving
so I hid myself away
hoping you wouldn't see the devil in me
 
blood from bone
soul within body
let him not taste the taint of betrayal  
 
bittersweet epiphany  
lessons learned where the viper bit
a poisonous cure to tame me
 
I cry to the gods
"please be my covering"
 
so inside their sacred halls
I await my sentencing  
pleading don't take my angel from me
 
a man of masculinity  
a boy of tender innocence
who I would gladly follow to the end of my days
 
don't let the darkness win
and take him far from me