Caelestis

I want 

to write you poetry;

about skies, painted with fire,

fingers stained with blood, ink, rust

and the sunlight, 

shining like gold, like honey and amber upon your hair

but words are weapons

intended to bruise,

and I am not divine enough

to make them holy.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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