when i met you
you were at the hands of ghouls
a gimping coterie of Satan's
who pleasured at the torments they inflicted upon your innocents
who bound your feet
bones in a vice
making you
their Chinese fantasy
a delicate sex trinket
a manacled smooth petite beauty
in agony
bending you into twisted branches

those heartless devils,
drinking red ice cocktails
you put your heel on their throats
by craving death

that will teach them!

gloating at your fear
filling their emptiness
with your trembling

your dreams faded
into the body of a wounded kitten

has God
given us the cold shoulder?

hacked angels wings to stumps
and left the doors to hell wide
leaving your soul a torn crag flaming?

little girl on fire
screaming in the cave of self

would he weep at your alter
and kiss your scarred tissue
begging your forgiveness
lamenting his snide toys of fate
sweet cursed apples
and sly snakes
twisting raptured seductions

your life, cross and curse
a burnt offering
a blood light blinking
with no fire escape

oh
Eve
blamed by the idiots of religion
for everything
only a child
who sank her pink mouth into a serrated moon

now always weighing death
bathtub murder, red ribbon glamour
dreaming paraphilias tide
eyes a ghastly vacancy
floating like a feather
mud,
tabernacles grave
a buoyant shell
sinking
in crimson clouds
a smiling dread

what does it take
for God to redeem himself?

must we storm paradise
before he fills you
with perfumed bliss
and effulgent lights embrace pours through your soul
like lanterns rose sky?