Ends

The light turned foul
a spoiled shell of what had been
the smiles morphed to scowls
when the backs face
and sin awaits
your eyes wandering and hungering
for more more more
and aching for less
of the hollow drone
that you now know

I wish I could remember the way your bright enchanted my eyes
you, a flicking flame in the night
coursing your light through parted lips
and wrapping my chemistry about your fingers

you owned me, claimed me
insanity and vanity
paired to be tempestuous and free
until night smothered the source of the fire
and crumbling our heated desire
faltered into the ashes
coating our lungs despite
the bated breath and gritted teeth.
voices dissenting, corpses descending
gasping for air,
We come to an end.

Remember when you once shocked your moth into submission?
But now your waning brilliance
is a vestige of the past
fission occupies our distant minds
incessant luminescence searching for a sign of the sublime