Wreckoning

Footsteps crack the timber spines
as you turn your sacred head
begging lights that cease to glow
to absolve you of the dread
 
you plead the cosmos for salvation
but it was dealt a feeble hand
don't you know the sun is deaf
when it's dark, when I impend
 
your skin quivers like December
making waltz your August mane
June eyes moisten as you realize
you're my Christmas, my cocaine
 
mind's in flight but legs are nailed
to the dirt that gave me birth
shoulders blend in one anoher
at the sense of my unworth
 
as the dusk forgets to dawn
I claim my morning in your eve
tonguing omens to your core
'twixt the hills that weightless heave
 
feelers clad of rotting bone
crease your wrap of liquid stars
midnight tears and we are dropped
down the mouth that ever starves
 
bend the wings you'll never spring
on the winds that summers blew
you're below, my autumn leaf
I am all that's left of you
 
hunger breaks my crooked jaw
what was buried comes afloat
as the sea you've always been
calms the fires in my throat
 
tar will steal your holy veins
you will leave my arms forlorn
that's the price a fiend must pay
on the hunt for unicorns
 
until then I breathe your lungs
as my pupils pulse with felony
you're the dream I'll never have
my damnation, my Persephone.