you followed me home,
to the place
where shadows bloom darkest,
and let yourself in
dressed with the sun’s secrets
on your skin
all crystalline beauty
and pretty petals
and green-garden-glimmer
you looked like a heartbreaker
with a smile that sparkled
and those coffee and cocoa eyes
but you smelled
like lilies and larkspur
and l o v e
so i let you kiss me there,
in my forest of gray
and you’ve been lighting up
these woods
ever since
– ashley jane
your voice
is seared into my mind,
the shrill sound
like when angels scream
and devils dance
and it is one decibel away from
u n b e a r a b l e
it calls from within,
challenging my last stand
against you,
and every damn word
tastes like poison
i can still see your smirk
and that look you give,
your pitch black
soul-haunting stare
stealing my breath
every.single.time.
and I’m left gasping,
choking on a memory,
my tenuous grip on sanity
one slip away from broken
and with these flashbacks
you prove
that not all monsters
live in the shadows
you walked under the sun,
eyes gleaming
and a smile on your face
and yet
you’re far worse
than any demon
i’ve met
in the dark
– ashley jane
– ashley jane
ghostly whispers move
under a voodoo blood moon,
a slow-shimmer-slink
of air over bone,
their dark love calling us home,
cosmic cadavers
with claws that sink deep,
burning nerves
and setting veins on fire
we stand on the cusp of shadows,
slowly disappearing into the ether,
our souls chained to a sinking sun
– ashley jane
wilted,
like funeral roses,
black and crumbling
from the weight of your ghost
they sit in stagnant denial,
thoughts swirling
and dreams drowning
in their desolation,
petals plucked
and seeds strewn
—
perhaps,
they’ll create
a garden of heartache
for all the lonely people
to water
– ashley jane
he wears shades
of brimstone and damnation,
never raven black,
all burnished gold, falu and feuillemort
his eyes are home to an hidden world
made of ancient shadows and sunlight
they welcome you into the fire,
but you will not survive their invitation
to explore new depths
(darkness lives within the flames)
– ashley jane
– ashley jane
