An Eye For An Eye, Says I

-there was something in your eyes. 
a light. 
a darkness. 
a vaccum. 
it shook me. 
yet i did not yield. 
ashes and dust.

Your name became 
my season. now 
my season has changed.
ashes and dust.

i tapped into
the blackest black. 
that others fail to see. 
this that i live for is killing me.
ashes and dust.

 this is what i wanted. 
 this is what i want.

like a serpent you strike 
defending your own. 
leaving me for dead.

this is what i wanted.
this is what i want. 
ashes and dust.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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