Introductions

Have you met my fate?

Let me introduce you

Its father is a fraud, its mother a deity

A crossroad between lovers in theory

It’s only ever held my hand once

August 10th – somehow painfully brief

Still long enough for me to forget

There is no such thing as black light 

 

I wish time were softer 

I wish it didn’t give paper cuts

Maybe then I wouldn’t have bled

In those places covered in dust

 

I wish time were kinder

I wish it wrote to me more often

Don’t ask it who stood by your door

Heavy heart in hand, holding out their core

 

I had hoped for temporary patience

For longer days of miracle

Really I knew it wouldn’t forgive me

After besmirching the mythical