MY FRIEND BATHES IN MOONLIGHT

 

Stephanie Smith

 

My friend bathes in moonlight

I drown inside her dreams

where she has dug a grave for us to spend

the rest of eternity in

 

We are as free now as the wooing wind

as inseparable as the suffering

of stars gone supernova

 

We yearn for the ephemeral

but the promise of forever is a hypnogogue

lost in a cloud of dust

 

My friend swims in the seas of lust

She causes angels to commit suicide,

the heavens to collide,

and all the stars to die out one by one

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Stephanie Smith is a poet and writer from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in such publications as THE HORROR ZINE, CARNAGE HOUSE, APHELION, RAVEN CAGE, THE LITERARY HATCHET, and ILLUMEN.