The Light of All Killing

I am the gutted star

Of emerald and scarlet

I am the crossed and spiralled one

I remember that day

The day a strange young girl decided

To be brave

To go it alone

Or so she thought

A girl with flowers in her hair

Magic songs in her heart

The day she walked right up to an unstoppable force

Immovable

To face a perfect storm

Thorns and lightning

Teeth and fur and knives

A hurricane of shattered glass

Kisses bent backwards

Hidden and true

Like myth, or magic

Snowflakes falling on the surface of the sun

She spread her arms wide and declared  

"Survive this."

My wildest star

All things hence were but an echo of that day

There was miracle, and death

A thousand deaths

Still she lives

But the storm

The storm did not survive

I still walk, penitent and dead

The only holy murder

All Songs

Guardian, friend, and more

A willing Slave of Grace

Gutted, spiralled, crossed

But I live again

I live

Again

For Love

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