Don't come too close—
your breath upon my neck is
just enough
to keep these walls from falling.
Too much water and the flower drowns.
You speak words that
spread flavor on my tongue.
I spit them out.
I beg you, though, do not stop—
add more spices, make me moist.
Walls are known to slip beneath wet ground.
He walked into the room, void, unknown
A stench followed him, leftovers of fear
Slightly exposing his true darkness
Death is his form of seduction
Calmly wait here for his rapture
So I come to linger
By the wall he finds I linger
To him, I am virgin, still unknown
He walks forth, all others in rapture
Watch, not daring to meet his eye, in fear
He prepares his cold seduction
As I retreat into the shadow's darkness
He laughs as I entered his world, the darkness
I fidget, wishing not to linger
Not to be trapped in his seduction
Wishing not to discover the unknown
Can not go back for now, I fear
He has begun his rapture
All cons
It's been two years since I saw her
saw that picture on my screen.
New evidence to process,
the latest victim found.
Call up the photo
lock the size,
set the depth,
don't judge the content,
don't imagine the pain,
Just do your job,
search for eighteen-percent gray.
My whole world is that shade
eighteen-percent gray.
I seek after it,
ignoring the battered bodies,
shattered buildings,
bloody instruments of man's inhumanity to man.
Elucidation through color-balance.
But that picture,
her picture,
haunts me over years,
incisions slit in skin,
vivisected, eyes staring into the camera,
a silent supplication.
"Find him"
Call