This is how I build you a shrine (Spoken Word)

Ever seen the white snow?
Orange marmalade and weak chai lattes               
The traveller singing Rock-a-by-baby
Late night neon grocery store signs
Past midnights of patiently waiting
The wind mercilessly beating
Restlessly bleating
Drowsy dewy mornings
Family gatherings like mango peels
Soft whispers and charcoal fingerprints
Ash smitten eyes and platonic kisses
Apprehension washed over coquette.
I nod an okay
(But you know darling, this is isn’t what I wanted)
Rather - breath me like cigarettes

Call of prayer from bleeding minarets
Whirling Darwishes
Drunk on Italian wine
Occultism and the divine
(This is how my soul tears)
(This is how my soul bleeds)
(This is how my soul bares sin)
I mix blood with fresh goat skull
I dig out bones from fresh earth
(This is how I build you a shrine)

Ever seen the white snow?
It burns like the suffering of the damned
I walk with a halo of haze of sweet honey from Eden
Like collation planes dropping weapons
Blur the scriptures and guidelines,
The fine line between deed and sin

And so I cry,
Laugh like lucifer,
Sing hymns like the angels.
I walk through purgatory for you.


This.
This is how I love you.

Author's Note

Spoken Word: https://soundcloud.com/nora-r-4/this-is-how-i-build-you-a-shrine