Fall On Your Knees

Footsteps harbor promises
kept in the depths of princes'
hearts, and in my prince's heart

But he isn't truly mine,
is he?
He's all hollowed out
on the inside,
more a shell of a human
than anything close to
a beating, breathing soul
I fall on my knees, pray
to God to heal him
of his frightful chair,
this hollowed curse
but, to the destruction
of my life's breath,
he sits, still, immobile
with empty, dark eyes,
and no peace, no love,
nothing, it seems, left for me

Wings flutter away
soft, yet heavy with laughter
they mock me, mock my love
and my once sweet prince

So golden and beautiful,
a crown of angel's tears
rested upon his head ,
as he sat on the image of the Divine's
most glorious throne
But his heart ceased beating
for things such as love
when humanity, with it's
devil's chains, came calling
demanding he rape, pillage, take and
take, lest he and his life be counted forefit
And to the dismay or my kiss,
he broke away from it,
left me alone, fallen on
my knees, wailing at the loss

Breaths, counted slowly now,
shuddering gasps I take ti
stay alive, wondering if my
prince will grace my last wish

But he isn't truly my prince,
is he?
He belongs to a lineage of royalty
and duty and my heart's
rung forefit
He comes, this vision of my life,
at my last hour, he stares
at me with those dark, dark eyes,
orders all to go
and finally whispers a plea from his
stoic, stone lips

fall on your knees,
mend this poisoned lover's heart,
make me whole, my champion,
my prince
You're forever my only wish
beyond life, beyond death

and with my final breath,
you fall on your knees, my sweet, sweet prince
and wonder why the gods and the angels
are so cruel to one
on so high a chair.
~brittany
4/29/11

Repeat it To Me

Voices, like liquid,
catch in my throat,
hook in my mouth,
and drag me along
Sensors, all over my body,
behave erratically
and it angers me
Eyes, like vicious beacons
latch onto my lusts
and bring them to light
like a sign,
hung as a noose
'round my neck
Completely Whole,
still wishing there was more
more eyes to love me,
more curved lips to shine on me,
more titles given to my name,
to the begining and ending of my days

Repeat it to me

Repeat my name,
chant it like a curse
'til at last I cannot breathe
because of it,
repeat it to me

repeat the call of my heart,
cry it out maddeningly
and make me see,
force my body to turn
and to accept all of you

Hands, like gravedigger's tools,
unearth me from my fears,
caress me like a lover,
and leave me cold and alone
Noises, like a viper's hiss,
lash out at me as
I imagine my prince
taking me up, giving me his name,
his love
Thrones, like my untimely fate,
sit still, as figure head,
etched throughout history,
stagnant, immaculate,
ever ready to hold me still,
like a prisoner upon it
Completely Broken,
full of holes, I am leaking
wishing frantically that there was truth,
truth to my desires,
truth to my words,
truth to fill the holes in me
to the begining and ending of my days

Repeat it to me

Repeat that it does exist,
a true forever, in happiness
with a true love and a true wish,
not dismissed but paid in full
Repeat it to me,
repeat it to me,
repeat...
~brittany
4/28/11

Veil

There is a flood
on the wings of some fabled
blue beast
approaching us,
pushing up back
towards the Veil

There is a consuming horde
biting at our heels
wanting to see us fall
and die
and be ripped apart by their hands,
their teeth, their all

And here the witness our trip,
they witness our fall

It is so like them to
shudder with fear and tremble
when at last we hit the ground
and become ensnared in the Veil's
wispy arms

It is such a demanding grasp
that takes hold of us
and drags us toward the veil
of life into death
And we forget to fight,
forget who we are
as we watch it, transfixed
as we watch our lives get stolen from us

And here, an unearthly scream wakes us,
a scream jolts through our bones

We thrash and we fight,
we beg and we plead,
gripping onto smooth walls,
trying to preserve our mortality
Our voices find their call
as we scream to escape

Blood's bruising our eyes,
flooding our sight
and with one last tug,
we're thrown out of shape
out of the Veil
and it's grasp

The hordes roar and scream
and deman our blood and our dreams
but we fight, fight them off
while ahead the blue beast
circles closer with those undying waters
that are sure to drown us

But, as champions, we still fight
and fight, cursing the 'whelming flow

The Veil, she can't get us,
she won't be at our side when the hour is late,
we will fight death,
with our souls and our blades
we'll fight the end,
fight death,
our foe and our friend.
~brittany
4/29/11

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I don't know how many nights
I've spent wide awake
in pain beside your beauty,
in awe of your face

I don't know how many lives
lost to the veil-
brother, sister, friend, foe-
will have to die for my fight
for a love, I'll never let go of

Where could we run?
Where could I escape
my destiny, with you?
from the wonders of your grace,
you're so beautiful
upon that stage,
larger than life,
more than the comprehension of my eyes

Take me whole,
chew me up,
inject me into your soul

I don't know how many tears
I'll have to shed,
but never admit
I don't know how many king's
throats I'll have to slit,
before I can keep you

Watch them run,
watch our foes
fall on their knees and tremble
before me

take me whole,
love me, I beg
make these deaths worth something
instead of ceaseless regret

My beautiful one,
my painful one,
inject me into your soul

make all the lives
lost to the veil
dying for my love,
worth all the cost

I don't know how many nights
on the shores of our Troy
I roll over and meet your eyes

And I don't know how much longer
we have,
or what is to come
'til the horde consumes us all,
We will fight, and fight and fight
for this love.
~brittany
4/28/11