Desire Burned Like Devastation In Me

It was a convenient excuse to remain in the prison I had made. And you— were you also suffering on another shore, far away from me? I was waiting for those shores to bring you to me. God’s golden horizons catching fire: I stood before those dark doors and gazed into so many oblivions—this spreading, fathomless vastness. By nature, I was distant and wild as starlight. Why should I hope? We were hanging game for the angels. Foreigners of the dead Earth—seesawing waves across the gauzy black seas—you were fragile as midnight dreams—Desire the monolith: witness me as I sink into the screaming night winds—this arrival of birds in a million sunrises—Madonna on the tightrope, you carved hearts into the soft of my throat—

Desire that blade of affections
I was the sunrise’s gilded resurrection
Ascend like the starving flames
In the graveyards of Paradise
misery! desire witnessed me
within this fallen Paradise
to survive the desecrations of daylight
Desire that blade of affections
I was the sunrise’s gilded resurrection
once for desire once for appetite
These eras of fire that deified me
Cradle to grave, days of slaughter
Gods in the graveyards of paradise
surrender to this majestic afterlife
come and obliterate me dark dawns
even the angels you astonish
before you fall into their arms
dwell in the dreaming Earth 
or drive me into the starlight universe 
Being from the furnace of dust
Broken but you were of my blood 
Yes into that vastness I escaped
Yes by that darkness I was enslaved 
drowning in a gash of dark rains
Death, where is thy victory?
Desire burned like decadence in me