darlin’

you’re beautiful

and I know it but you don’t,

so let me describe half of you and tell you it’s whole,

tell you you’re welcome,

tell you it’s loan,

till you see this empty as home.

persephone,

I’ve found myself lost in your eyes,

i see the twinkle of hades at twilight,

the burn of the flames,

the choke of a vine,

found that lost never left,

I still reek of it,

the scent of the forgotten clinging like sap on bark.

found that found never lasts, slides off

wrap me up in midnight please,

fold me into nothing but

dark, it tastes like soft serve ice cream like

relief from the heat and the light.