How sweet, how succulent, this personal destruction. I can taste it in my teeth and feel it in my eyes.

I cut the silver strings of fate to send us tumbling to a turgid sea of stars. Stars who will steal your soul with their beauty, for their own souls are long lost from loneliness. And we tumble through the dark abyss, reminded by faint speckled lights that we are not yet in Death's embrace. But as your fingers slip, I am reminded she accompanies our retreat. I cannot lose…

I AM A WILD ANIMAL

Born in captivity, no knowledge of my roots;

Stolen and 'sheltered' from my home within a cage;

Locked behind a manufactured identity. I dream of

Mountains never climbed, oceans never swam;

I imagine the wet dew from the bosom of a cloud spraying small droplets across my cheek on a breezy

day. The smell of wildflowers and dry grass, of frost on early winter nights;

I lash against my captors when i realize what

I've…