
double takenbeauty,double taken by ~skerd22
where flew your horizons?
did you leave your future
destroyed for imperfect designs,
choosing violent displays
over quiet?
prithee,
are your crimes
justified by a whim?
is your tirade
of the skin
and your active
decay
striding forward
or breaking your limbs?
do you ache
or just fend
for your own
ing desires?
truly,
beauty,
you pool
in the street.
we've seen
every splash
of your letting;
the scene
you forget
you repeat.

love, in three actscrush.love, in three acts by ~skerd22
You designed my
endeavors.
I never
let go of my heart
'till you beckoned,
direct,
and yet farther
away than I questioned.
Call it a test,
some marvelous
best-case spent
showing heartstrings
can be sewed again.
You fashioned
the gaping
expanse in
my chest.
flame.
You kissed pages
with embers.
Remember
that poetry sparked
was a shot in the dark
'till you caught one
and offered
the tinder.
Call it a sin,
or a carnal
incentive lent
to uncertain
inquiring intent.
You chanted
my name
as a flattering
hymn.
love.
You will be my
forever.
We'll weather
the ages to come
with triumphant
aplomb
'till the e