(the carnal prayer mat)

beyond the walls of reason
it’s just as dark as (the) inside(s) of me
run through forests of the isolated
into the arms of insanity
(selling you into slavery)
in the entrails of the angel
forget your soul, try to survive
fucking her sworn enemies
before her betrayed eyes
we, the living, in instants,
suffer eternally
take my eyes, black with splinters
the homeless nights soaked through with dreams
outside the walls of reason
guided by visions that no one could know
yes, the world is black at its heart
as I am black in my own
in the entrails of the angel, forget your soul,
try to survive
begged your forgiveness, then left you
there to die
every moment wrought a lasting vision,
every instant cut a deep incision
and I left you, spitting life out on the pavement
in our lost innocence
and the stench of our flesh.

(a bit of doggerel about love, sex, and betrayal--
for everyone we have betrayed, or will betray,
in the quest to never betray ourselves)