Love Poem: Crystal Days
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Written by: Allen Smith

Crystal Days

A simmering fractured breath
Deliciously drawn
Permeates my lifeblood
Where fetid thoughts are born
An insincere promise
Impure, misfit ways
A venerated oath
Wanting crystal days

Bound by consequence 
To achieve my vital aim 
I whimper like a baby
Refuse to join the game
Forgive my bloody sins
I bow in servile state
Pleading for your forgiveness 
My mind is at your fete 

Deliver me in whole 
My scars are plainly seen 
A splintered soul I carry 
From a Dantesque scene
My ego diminished 
Rejected by the light
A barren, rotten carcass 
Devoid of any fight

I challenge you to want me
To fill my empty heart
To open up these eyes 
Before I come apart
Hold my withered hand
Rejuvenate the skin
Into the very marrow
Your love I hope to win.