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I LIE DOWN WITH YOUR BONES

By Mags D.



I lie down with your bones, 

On these soft, summer nights.

Nobody knows

For I'm gone by first light.

And I feel you beneath me.

Compressed under clay,

Where they took you and buried you deep,

On that day.


But we whispered our vows

In the light of the stars,

Swore nothing would part us 

Or tear us apart.

So through midnight and darkness, 

Pressed here against stones.

I come in the twilight

And lie down with your bones.


I whisper my love, 

And I know you can hear.

And I feed you each evening

With blood and with tears.

And the scar on my finger

Runs red every night

As it offers you blood vow

To keep you in sight.


Deep crimson it falls, 

On the clay where you wait, 

With scull reaching up

To drink life from this plate.

The plate of my body

I bartered, on loan

To the guardian of death,

To lie down with your bones.


And fed on my blood, 

Thirst sated on tears. 

I will come here each evening

Be it days, be it years. 

And I'll spend all this life

Till my last day is known

And together at last

I'll lie down on your bones.


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