4//12//18: The Devil’s river- bring her back to me
I can barely hear the whispers, they say she drowned in the river. Either by her own hand, or slaughtered and dumped there by the devil himself
The church pews have never been this full, but lately our small town is adamant on praying to a god she never believed in for her return. I join in on the mourning, worshipping the angels we used to be. They never knew her like I did.
Sometimes when I walk among the trees I can still hear her calling my name, A sweet laullaby whistling just out of reach
She was a stone cold killer whos being was all that ever kept me alive. Now it’s rotting and decomposing under chronic sunshine.
The buzzards fly into the trees and fall dead above the rippling current,
Not even the gods can touch her now
Some days I try to imagine her corpse ruined beneath the depths, Her jaw is unhinged and her skin torn off of her wicked skull, Unrecognizable to those who never took time to rip her apart, glimpsing what she looked like under the surface.
I think she’s still beautiful with mold blooming around her bones
Her watery grave lays running, as if it were still alive somehow, her suffocation choking life into the stream
She was too old of a soul to die young, i’m too dry to have tears spilling over my cheeks anymore
She was a poor sinner who’s hands could turn water into wine
I crave a kiss from the cold, intoxicated, dead lips of my lover who now lies below, I feel her watching me from above. The only thing that kept me sober was the sound of her skin on mine and now shes gone. Wine rolls off my tongue like muddy water and tears, I drink only with the living dead.
Flowers grow around the old river now, marigolds and forget-me-nots sprouting from the earth shes nourished
I keep them well gardened, diving until I feel her pale flesh on my fingertips
I’m waiting for her to pull me under