words

acolyte,
move close,
get back,
burn it burn it
burn it burn it,
vilify me like a pagan god
then get close,
move back,
let your fingers drift
across the ends of the bed
now come close,
drop back,
burn it burn it
burn it burn it
like a paper god
then slide closer,
draw back,
pick-axe woman,
hair trigger,
a touch closer,
further back,
baby these walls bleed pretty,
too pretty,
pull me close,
push me back,
cross me like the sun of god
then lean closer,
fall back,
the pen is death,
the blood is had,
move closer,
get closer,
now back,
farther back,
out the door,
dead gone.

-S.C. Martinez