[IN THE LABYRINTH CITIES]

days of decadence in the labyrinth cities you shrink from the light and call it defiance you immolate yourself with desire and call it survival nights of obsidian this is the universe of fire that you live inside

child of the winds awakening in the labyrinth cities desire burned like devastation in me I was chained to this burning rush, ecstasy! — I feel a breath of life in my lungs then that waterfall of darkness comes again your flesh like fragile fire in my fingertips these are cycles of the abyss back in the bed of a basilisk

surrender to desire in the wake of devastation say yes I AM that fire again