Devotion (Blood for Ink) - Horrendous

Emptiness

Ensconce me

In a bible black sigh

Absorb my tribute

My abject need

Robed in flesh

Assuage my malaise, my lust to create

With displays of teeth, devour me

To extract my being

I trade blood for ink

Vivisection complete

Commit me to memory

I’ll be a frail utterance cutting deep

Bones eroded, shaped into effigy

Make me a siren’s song

Make me a monument to suffering

Face to the pavement

Wrest me free

Will you place me upon the altar?

A thirst for permanence?

An ego to sate?

Envy’s firm grasp?

Commit me to memory

Commit me

Amongst settled dust

I breathe aromas of midnight

Sense the marrow’s gentle pulse

I’m free

Then a tickling in the throat

An ache wells from within

Vessels Constrict

I’m in the grip of angst again

Free me