From savior’s lips to lover’s tooth
I’d gladly bond my soul to you,
Self sacrifice, and bleeding hearts
You shine like stars or distant mercury,
In the deadened constant shadow
Of burden's darkened hues.
In space your body radiates
Of parsimonious benevolence
And altruistic isolation,
Like the sun, you draw me closer,
Fate entwined with gravity.
But scorch the vast skies
Of our optimistic atmosphere
My darling harvest moon.
You fear if love was hot like fire
You’d burn us all to ash,
But from the seat of passionate affection
Your admiration warms and soothes.
I yearn to see your blushing face
Under basement halogens,
But your heart is hidden behind your eyes
Impregnably encased in you.
I’d break down that barricade
Erected for all the wrong reasons
From savior’s lips to lover’s tooth
I’ll gladly bond my soul to you.
You never could stop the sun from shining
Your rays wash over the cosmic heavens.
One day karma will send a check
Through the post to you,
Typed out in fine figures
Your long awaited “retribution due”.
You’re like one big riddle,
A guessing game by candlelight,
Perspectives forged by a soul
Deep enough to scrape the shores
Of the wild river Styx.
You fight against the current
Of a shallow life and fate.
Living is valued not by breaths taken,
But by quality of the life they’ve lived
And you’ve been around the block
Once or twice, I’ve seen it in your eyes.
They reflect the world for what it is,
A place to live and learn.
You’d save them all,
Or give your breath to their lips
To breathe their life back in again.
A single cloud is shedding tears
Out… over the atmosphere.
“Look… a meteor shower”
Like little fires under the moon,
Complimenting the stars,
Like contrasting colors
Across the canvas sky of our galaxy.
Like larks, let the caged sing free:
An afflicted personality to dot this fiction,
And mark this perfect story.
You don’t, you wont… save me
It’s long been time you let me soothe
From savior’s lips to lover’s tooth
I’d bond my fate with you.
Let this meteor shower paint a carpet
Over the preconceived,
And together… move on with our lives.
Submission Name: Arguendo
