You stood tall in all black
Mourning among the fireflies
And let them condemn you
For everything they turned you into
All this time I watched the rot
Decompose your loving soul
Not a word from the jury or the judge
Curse of a conspiratorial grudge
I stand, a simple woman,
My greed in my belly, my heart
In my throat, blood all down the front
Of my chest, you left me on read,
But I'd fly down the gravel road
And into your broken bones
Five thousand times until
It wakes you from your empty slumber
And your lips part
With the breath of a dying man's fight
In the blue-green light of
A meaningless night.
