Belly of Your Snake

-Belly of Your Snake-

This body you inhabit 

the wilderness 

to which I am lost 

fingers stained with ashes

the nails

which bind our cross

blood dirtied

impassioned sin's desire

boils within the cauldron

of lust's heated fire

lips scorched, 

burnt by your 

conviction 

this body broken 

calloused

endless friction

You speak of love

burdened with hate 

a blackened angel 

fallen at Heaven's gate 

limp with affection

in the belly

of your snake,

the fragments

of my skeleton

my loyalty

my ache.. 

though these wings

broken,

though your venom

roams these veins,

I will arise

from the sewers

of your torso

and of it's stains.

January 14, 2004

A Collaboration with Poet Russel Paitent