Offerings to Demons by hotpinkavalanche, literature
Literature
Offerings to Demons
Offerings to Demons
Relating the nightmares
Resurrecting themselves from your past
In phantom words
Of a you that only just survived.
Wrapped in my comforter like
Its cotton folds could save you
From these memories that pursue
And descend like wolves
To devastate your peace.
Lying near you to stroke your hair
Emptying all the solace in me
At your tiny feet
A meager offering to placate
The demons that wound you.
Disdaining clumsy words
For the simple strength of nearness
To become momentarily
A ward against your darkness.
Consistent
The touch of frustration, hot-eyed
Shame, is scorching
Through my tinder-dry psyche,
Incinerating my willingness,
Glutting itself on my dreams.
I have long since succumbed
To the unfeeling,
Self-preserving
Numbness.
My self loathing
And the disappointment
Making coals out of
The eyes of others is acknowledged,
Unaccepted.
I no longer vie for favor,
Knowing after so many
Countless repetitions
That I will, without fail,
Fail you.
Consistent
The touch of frustration, hot-eyed
Shame, is scorching
Through my tinder-dry psyche,
Incinerating my willingness,
Glutting itself on my dreams.
I have long since succumbed
To the unfeeling,
Self-preserving
Numbness.
My self loathing
And the disappointment
Making coals out of
The eyes of others is acknowledged,
Unaccepted.
I no longer vie for favor,
Knowing after so many
Countless repetitions
That I will, without fail,
Fail you.
Offerings to Demons by hotpinkavalanche, literature
Literature
Offerings to Demons
Offerings to Demons
Relating the nightmares
Resurrecting themselves from your past
In phantom words
Of a you that only just survived.
Wrapped in my comforter like
Its cotton folds could save you
From these memories that pursue
And descend like wolves
To devastate your peace.
Lying near you to stroke your hair
Emptying all the solace in me
At your tiny feet
A meager offering to placate
The demons that wound you.
Disdaining clumsy words
For the simple strength of nearness
To become momentarily
A ward against your darkness.