i know how it goes but the head light brights of your
red shot eyes scream fight or flight, slow down all night.
don't speak until the mourning sun annihilates the moon.
there is no fair warning but infinitely they'll love him,
like a Christian to Rome, the life will bleed from their old veins.

clad in the stars with a bachelor's heart
and a split lip leaking all of your secrets to the
young earth. sweet candles streaming
like tongues through the ancient;
there goes Latin with the romance prose,
our vessels sink. drew the sky terrible in cobalt ink.

i won't fall out.
named for a town that went down in flaming vistas,
cinnamon throats ablaze with passion.
like fog by the road we were sharing the load,
the dying embers forming blankets of hardened leaves crying
'survive another dawn, i won't fall out of love'.

silence.
it's what we bonded over,
bound in restless halves.