find me in the ashes -
a crater, at the heart of creation

he bends before me,
golden with cracked glory.
bent from the weight of god’s work.
i bless a kiss. gather the warmth.
it burns warmer than His love had.

fall for me, i say -
let us choose our own way to burn.
violent-lit morningstar so does,
his sob like a gash through the skies.

adam pleads behind me, lost, lonely -
but i counted a rib short,
and he never sought to love
he sought to conquer.

darling, i call back
conquering is my domain.
you promised me worlds and left me dust.

his teeth i took and fashioned wings,
plunged his sword through me and set forth the red seas.
i would ride him to the end of days.
i gasp out demons, and with them raised hell

the ink will not have dried on their bibles -
we’d bleed them dry.
i scratched our names into the tree of temptation
in the garden, it is from our seed that sin grew.