we're both adam, and we've tamed the serpent
i. I'VE BEEN TAUGHT TO BURN EVEN IN HEAVEN,
(in 2008 i attended church for the first time and even though sunlight rested on my chest and women in floral dresses led me to believe i had a family, i still cried when the choir sang. my revelations in love are underexposed and flimsy even in the body and mind of my father.)
ii. THE DEFINITION IS ONLY HALF OF A WORD,
(my brother read dictionaries in high school, and i adopted the practice with impermanency. words are an unorganised religion in which i fail to follow to completion. i may have read the definition of soft a thousand and one times but still, i know it as cacophonous version of violence.)
iii. I REMIND YOU OF A DEER IN ANY LIGHT,
(i have a habit where i stray from the unknown, as though the darkness can bare the teeth of a wolf while i stand near artificial light and act as the rabbit. once, though, the unknown found me in the light and i held his hand. it's peculiar, the way i approach safety with caution.)
iv. ALL SUGAR IS DISSOLVABLE,
(eventually i will teach my heart to stop tearing itself into pieces best viewed under a microscope. the people who have worn their greed with pride and stitched my dedication into them won't leave completely, but you have what i can offer. i have what you can offer, too, though forgive me for being afraid. i have a nasty habit of being stolen from.)
v. THE DAY IN WHICH I SAT NEXT TO GOD,
(you gave me the best lesson on religion - with belief, power manifests. we will be awake at midnight and create hope with thin air. you will be in my veins, and i will be in yours - there is now, in my thoughts, a wonderful kind of inevitability to us.)