Your Best Friends Apartment

We sat on the porch of your best friends apartment Celebrating time with cigarettes and conversation You sat on my lap; a siege concealed in a kiss My envy revealed with the feel of your swollen lips Inhaling your breath like a cold, autumn wind Those Marloburo reds and your darkness within Despite all the secrets; freely bleeding from me You bought every line that your heart would believe Heroically spoken like words from a pyre I needed you more, for curves to admire Raspy alto tones spoke fallacies that day The echoes of your voice; a dark angel's decay The goddess within died a little more that night Teenage love billowing smoke of suburban delight The heat of the pyre fueling desire inside A ghost found her voice, with nowhere to hide I wanted to sway like your hips in the wind Those cold, autumn nights, and my darkness within Two agents of chaos in the coldest of nights Beginning at dawn; the march of my plight