Fear

Even as the hunter’s rays slowly disappear,

His afterimage has yet to reappear.

Come the prey’s moonlight glistening,

Timid as can be, his soul waning.

His love for another stretched across the sky,

As rough foaming white caps cry,

They crash against you at night.

We share our first kiss under the limelight,

Crashing and trembling beside you,

My flesh clings to your morning dew,

Between the sheets, leering like the other guys,

Gabriel must’ve told you otherwise.

Sacrifice your blood and tears,

Break me harder with your dilated eyes,

Makes it hard to breathe with your desires.

Lust, the anxiety that courses through these veins.

Fear, of you loving another when I leave for the night.

Some days, I wonder what my purpose is,

In between the sips and drips of something different—

Like the ink that rests beneath your flesh

Like the jade that rests in your heart,

And the feeling beneath my breast

And the warmth between us in the pale moonlight.

Then I’ll find myself in your arms,

Something I wish was that you would set me free,

Like when I talk of my past stories, when these butterflies flutter no more.

And it’s that pain that keeps me up at night—

That keeps me calling your name,

That keeps me begging for you to stop,

That keeps me lost in dark daydreams.