SECULAR    IS    SHE  !                     of universes untold    &    prophecies hidden behind the tongue of eden’s serpent  .         the heart can only take so much scorn  ,    it’s weight - bearing capacity is so little in this world of iron beams and indestructible words                      (    your heart will cave in soon  ,    don’t worry  .    each valve will self destruct when i smile at you  .    your aorta will collapse under the toe of my boot    )                      set in stone    /    a funeral’s procession    /    she hides among grieving with white veils and whiter eyes             *   what a vagrant angel  !    what a visage of decay  !    conquest with tilted crowns    &    fingertips blackened with grave-dirt  !                        look at me and what do you see    ?                        angels wings adorn the eyes of the devil    /    she wears a virtuous white   !                        pretend as though the gloves on her hands can hide the blood that stains them  ----    no  -----    she knows better than to wish herself innocent once more  .     she makes no mockery of them  ,    the divine that howl and scream like the winds of hurricanes  .    saints prayers coat the inside of her lips like honey  ,    it bleeds from her mouth like pomegranate wine                        (   i am sickly sweet  ,    i taste of iron sins and bloodletting over a dying man’s last confessional  .    i will dare you  ,   i will taunt you  ,   i will be the reaper who comes to you on your death bed  .    )                        TELL ME  :    ARE YOU AFRAID OF ME YET  ?                         kiss the barrel of guns  ,    use gunpowder as perfume    &    flames like lipstick                         ❝      i didn’t think you would find me here  .     ❞                            /                  @sepulchritic