The Death Sister
You come forever toward me as if we were lovers
my beautiful lady Death, same in the sum of parts
but a secret smile hides in your darkness, as in mine.
We follow each other, a snake chasing its own tail.
Someday we shall lie entwined, leg to leg, breast to breast
sisters in beauty, twins in the night.
White below and white above, we are crystalline,
an unrivaled purity of sensation.
We're the same and different, locked, a secret,
a story never told.
Your tongue curves around the word, love, but I stop it with my hand.
We must be silent, hide in the caverns of ourselves.
We must be shells, our heartbeat the ocean susurrus,
full with the salt and tears of the sea.
We are ocean sisters, mermaids, held by a silver umbilical of pulse.
I give you the heat of my skin, the molten core of myself,
and in an ocean of sweat, seas of fire and fever crest around us.
And we are one, and one is gone, and the pulse has ceased,
and I am not a woman anymore. I have lost myself.
I am you
and you are me
and death is the final surrender.
my beautiful lady Death, same in the sum of parts
but a secret smile hides in your darkness, as in mine.
We follow each other, a snake chasing its own tail.
Someday we shall lie entwined, leg to leg, breast to breast
sisters in beauty, twins in the night.
White below and white above, we are crystalline,
an unrivaled purity of sensation.
We're the same and different, locked, a secret,
a story never told.
Your tongue curves around the word, love, but I stop it with my hand.
We must be silent, hide in the caverns of ourselves.
We must be shells, our heartbeat the ocean susurrus,
full with the salt and tears of the sea.
We are ocean sisters, mermaids, held by a silver umbilical of pulse.
I give you the heat of my skin, the molten core of myself,
and in an ocean of sweat, seas of fire and fever crest around us.
And we are one, and one is gone, and the pulse has ceased,
and I am not a woman anymore. I have lost myself.
I am you
and you are me
and death is the final surrender.
