| Battle Joined On Eternity's Dusty Street |
- The door moving at light speed
Accelerating from wind gust
Passeing through unattended window
Opened, broken, and laid bare by time
Slams with loud report
Lazy wisps of rising smoke
Like locks of midnight blue hair
Tumbling downward from the brow
Of a black Moroccan Princess
Rise above the roofs of the forbidden city
Grass and weed muscle men
Push through cracks in the empty streets
Their crumbling concrete and tar cover
Bleached gray by desert sun, yield grudgingly
Split asunder rise up in jagged pinnacles
She stands, feet spread arms crossed
Her long black gown waving in angry defiance
Scoffing at the dust devils swirling around it
As if daring them to brush against her cold skin
Her very touch their slow demise
Her dark eyes scream out a challenge
To any who'd dare gaze into those whirlpools
Of lapis and dooms unblinking orbs
And be drawn in, the breath pulled from lungs
Their destiny bare bones and rag scraps
I approached her without fear of this new disguise
Her magick and power mere toys to amuse
I reached out my hand curving 'round her neck
And slowly pulled her towards me watching
A hint of fear creeping into that cold stare
Her hair rose up like black adders, striking
Whipping at my face, as a dust storm enveloped us
The empty streets shuddered and moaned as earth heaved
The half ruined houses creaking, collapsed in pillars of ancient dust
Ten thousand ravens flew into the air as the sky turned dark
A new look crept into her continence
Her eyes flashing from Azurite to Malachite
Her breast burst asunder her white hot heart pulsing
As rays of loves energy passes into me
Blue plasma burrowing itself into my soul
She searched me for my heart to steal
But no heart pounds in my body taken long ago
In eons passed too many to count
I pulled her into me, as a new sun
Born of us two, rose up on that empty street
I could feel her mind within mine filling me up
With visions of happiness and gentle caress
As the battle was joined, I focused like a lens
In the hand of my child, burning bugs on sidewalks
Confident that my victory was a certainty this time
My god she felt good there in my mind
As waves of non-stop ecstasy surged through my being
Rising slowly upward until finally reaching this old brain
For the smallest instant my mind wandered looking
Assured that which I never felt, existed somewhere within
And in that instant she slipped away from me
Not with force or anger, but with a firm gentle slip
She burst back to life once again in all her splendor
The scent of her perfume carried aloft by the wind
The sun ignited once again streaming down upon her
Her eyes opened slowly and she spoke aloud mockingly
"Oh death will you never learn? This battle waged age after age.
Yet always ending the same to your folly and lesson not learned.
For to my door, you may ultimately come and battle quickly won
But I am love and will always rise again. For love is eternal"
