The price of love is time

Woven empty into the early hours

Collecting like plum-colored rain under my eyes

How many days have you given to anxiety?

Is it enough to be in love?

Is is fragile and bleeding blue in the moonlight?

Tell me

Or skip stones on my skin

Leaving bruises like reminders

Hold my hair back

And waltz with death

Braided brass under my bones

The price of love is unkown

Carved into your canine teeth

And buried under promises

Take my bones

One by one

From my skin

And watch them sink

Black lake water

Boiling then returning to glass

Aching stillness in the 5 am half-light

Ask how many nights

I will lay with winter's fingers

Under my skin

Playing the piano on my ribcage

Painting blue onto my lips

And calling it love

Without words

I am an empty shadow

In the vivid world of adventure

Your eyes no longer see my tiny color

Peering out through the cracks in my broken bones

I am desolate

A vast expanse of nothing

Like a turbulent night sky

You can no longer see the stars that have been punched into my skin

I am lost

And this time you won't find me

You, my love

Are an angel

Divine in

Everything

You do

But sadly

Angels have wings,

And like them

You will fly

Away too

Shall we dance,

Take a chance

He asked me

And I knew

He would be true

About his lies

He had already,

Trembling unsteady

Unwound me

Plucked the strings

Within the rings

Of my beating heart

Taught me to live

So I could give

The unknown

Left me alone

With the stone

In my chest

Yet I still love

As if from above,

How foolish

For with him

I can swim

The rapids of life

A fleeting dance

One more chance

Before death consumes