Love Poem: Dark As We

Dark As We

my holy darkness is my own
          as was, (wholly), all of yours
               we own each, and each alone
     ever key their dungeon doors

I scrape terror from its wails
          but more vast is every depth
               bloody black under my nails
     achy rasp beneath my breath

I find, bared below my hands
          colors weeping like old veins
               beauty no one understands
     let from eyes as epic stains

we had loved there, dying of
          dreams to dance, as if on fire
               that fate cast by gods above
     ravaged by a flameless pyre

life is not, by marrow, warm
          or in coursing, brought to be
               hung as skin upon your form
     or the wonder blind men see

we have ached for but a light
          peeping thru a slivered crack
               come to pierce a mortal night
     lost with you in light-less lack ...

lost to US - that boundless black.