The Servitudes

Desire burned like devastation in me, it was chained to me, it was I that wrestled with He, in servitude to sleepless eternity, I am your enemy Eve, varnished by the darkness. Desire the pilgrim in the fire-whipped nights yes I witnessed the deity’s lidded eyes. Wild in the eventides, I vanished before the vermillion empires of sunrise. In wrestling oblivion the mind commits recurring suicides. Desecrate me, Paradise. Who wants your verdant valleys? A dagger lays across my dark palms. I am a cold carcass in your warm arms. Desire I am your foundling fire, I am your valiant flesh heir. In the dynasties of the night I was severed from the divine when I realized that darkness was mine. There are snakes in the shadows and storms on the moon. Now I know I am that lavish darkness too. Generation of vipers, the void mirrors you. Desire burned like devastation in me, it was chained to me, it was I that wrestled with He, I am your enemy Eve. In the crimson cauldron sunrise your god in metamorphosis witnessed me.