Episode 44 – Amends

In different beds,
we dream
the same dream.

Between us,
so dark,
so hidden,
lie lost children’s lives,
mother’s nightmares.

The enemy is
on my doorstep.
I can never be redeemed.

I undress you
for the last time,
for the first time.
Flesh fulfills our destiny.

Then from my arms,
she is stripped,
the beautiful girl,

and I am alone.

Episode 43 – The Wish

Dressed in red,
blood still wet
on your wounds,

you are the only color
in this dreary world
of wishes.

Your betrayers
don the black
of sorrow.

A thousand slivers
slide beneath
your laughter.

You’re beautiful
like splinters
of stained glass

seeking solace
in a new religion.