A Random Poem

No real reasoning as to why I wrote this, or why I'm putting this up here. But I did, and liked it, so I am.

The Alter

I'm sure now you'll disclose

as I seal and enclose

and prepare to surrender my heart.

If I have solved the riddle

which you fed me the middle

wish I could have begun from the start.

'Tis the jigsaw I fear

I will not lie my dear

I never was good at these things.

When it came to propose

I had heard I suppose

It had something to do with the rings?

You first caught me with eyes

of suspicion and lies

like a fish with a hook in my snout.

You undressed on my bed

'I surrender' you said

but I'll admit I was still filled with doubt.

And then you slowly drew

out of honey and dew

a silken laced, patterning web.

Where you wrapped me in tight

stole my heart from the light

and my soul I felt starting to ebb.

Numb in your embrace

you said 'fear not the space

that is now the dark hole in your chest.

For now you have me'

(in a voice so breathy)

'and I'll fill it with how I know best'.

And so now here I stand

subject to your command

and you smile your arsenic smile.

From behind your white veil

in a pure shade so pale

You'd admit that it reeks of denial

I look at your nails

with the smallest details

painted light as a dead baby's breath.

And the sweat it drips down

my back and I frown

As I realise I'm marrying death.