To Bleed Love Eternal -
I wear the flame of your name,
traced in jaguar herbs
between pearl blades of angels,
pulling in the heat of your wildfire...
My soul branded with a burning love feather
molten madness stroking the light rebellious,
your identity a touch of kissing curves,
I am mantled with a cloak of star rain...
Addicted, engrossed,
as my silhouette aches to be drenched
in rivers of your rushing rhymes,
breathing nothing but the dream
of being chained
to the footprints of your soul...
Tethered to the stride of my soul
heartbeat warmly pained,
You follow with yielding scream
my attention on your pulsing eyes,
I spread open vellum of poetry achingly inked,
scent of rose melting frost...
I've witnessed them christen my night as lethal,
their prayers painting me as sin,
while I entomb their accusations
in a blood stained envelope,
laid to rest in a casket of poisoned lilies,
for I am no longer their Lilith
crowned with silken serpents,
jeweled in jinxed jasmines
I am the gold rose rays of sunrise
wrapping you in blushing silence...
But what if love were your ink,
what would you bleed ?
Within your bloom there is a violet innocence,
weaponized once for ritual license
a jewelry box of black magic temptations,
Tiara of bloodstones broken for love repentance,
a Goddess become Woman trueth,
the coffin become catalyst to living tears,
elegant gown now simple linen of lilac hope,
reputation now means nothing
before heart's divinations,
You are no harpy, You are my revelation,
You are love beautiful, reason for my passion crystal...
This composition was written
by J.A.B. and Ink Empress
as a collaboration expressing
love as a transformative experience.
Ink Empress wrote verses 1, 3, & 5,
and also the bridge line,
"But what if love were your ink,
what would you bleed ?"
I composed veres 2, 4, & 6...
During the writing process I decided to rhyme my end line words in reversed order
to her end line words...
So although our verses independently are Free Verse, I ryhmed the end line words in reverse order verse for verse, in doing so inventing
a new rhyme meter especially in contex of collaborative poetry.
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