• Squeezed heart of essences pure
    Sweetest potion, fiercest of love
    Rose petals, fallen from the sky
    A small smile, wrenched tightly the most
    Don't penetrate, the bitter juices will sting
    A quiet death lights the open darkness
    "Please, child," she said, reaching up to the face
    "A gentle touch to ease the dead." A fading wish,
    the skeletal corpse of once was color,
    the whisper of shadow, the light slowly answers
    "A mercy for you. The vestige of a kiss."