amid a transfixed crowd, their mouths agape,
gathered around a centerpiece
amid pillars and statues so majestic,
I move with their mechanical dancing.
beaming like the highest art
she strikes divine, yet taunts me with her smile,
I’m mystified as we lock eyes

hold me down

swelling smoke streams around her feet
her veins glowing bright with heat;
she reveals fissures in her magnificence
while I still dwell on diligence
I see the masses disperse at the sight of it
their shutters hide the sight of it
and I am stunned by the sight of it
I stand still

close to my world’s end
she rose and brought hell
under my skin
she was sleeping so soundly
sleeping so soundly

hold me down

she has a face no stranger than mine
flaring up under the red stained sky;
in the glorious ruins of her appearance
I recognize myself disappearing;
I weep for the wreckage around me,
her betrayal confounds me. a spectacle
that haunts me every time we lock eyes

close to my world’s end
she rose and brought hell
under my skin
she was sleeping so soundly
sleeping so soundly