She Sings the Words Alone

1. He sent them:
   To me, all beautiful women
   He could have for a smile
   Or a quest like war
   Killing love for it’s own sake…
   “Still I wanted him
   To love me.”
   She sang the words
2. Suspended,
   Before the chase
   Blood covenants spilled and broken
   For promises
   For kingdoms
   Twist yours into mine
   “Birth these devils for us
   Double blade inside you
   All your life.”
   She sings the words
3. My heart hold itself now
   For a song
   She sang words I dreamed
   She belonged where I wanted to be
4. Now a snake awakens
   Rattles shaking
   Bare your smile for the kill she sings
5. He never wanted me
   My own hands caress my soul
   I ride my own horse
   I write my own place
6. He can say
   He did
7. He believed it too
   She sang a song
   That emptied his chances
8. To keep me forever
   Greek chanting chorales to the play
   “I am the alien .” she sings the words,
   “Winds and thunderstorms
   Make love to me.”
9. Background noises
   Sounds of men who used to be
   Passed into yesterday
   Epic even though they fell
   For other loves
   I do not even own my own
   It flies
10. Lost
11. Over dark continents
    Seeking
    Learning
    That nothing is worth
    The pain of everything she sang
    Words carried drops of confusion
    Smelling
    Of old perfume and inverted logic
12. Really it was men
    Stumbling in a giants footsteps
    Trying to walk
    In prints to big to fill
    Carrying a broken heart
    Before she broke
    She sang the words
    I put into her mouth to sing
13. She came near
    Once she filled my nose
    With the smell of sweat
14. Now she sings the words
15. No one ever really heard them
    Humans don’t know
    How to hear the aliens
    The glory of life swells
    It plays arias of love
    It plays with hearts
    Letting out the life
16. Stopping
    Each beat forced
    Ideas ripped away
    She sings the words for angels
17. Juxtaposition
    A punishment of words she sang
    Breath hurts the chest
    Tight
    Notes shot from taut strings
    Sounds killing
    Metal tipped destroyers
18. My own soul I love alone
    I eat alone
    I drink it’s blood alone
    I sign it’s agreement
    In blood by myself
19. The roar of crowds is for others
    Men worshipping are not for me
    They no longer worship God
    They worship Giants
    They worship youth and strength
    They worship beauty and power
    Yearning for magic
    Quicken your feet
    They are walking