Soul Wife
Did our screams echo together
Through another unseen dimension
A heaven where we have walked side by side
Since the first ray of hope
Flashed through the fingers of time
And did I ever hurt you
I care not if you hurt me
Just to know you breathe erases it
Let me find you
Call to me from this plateau
This table of smoke
Howl through the mist to me
See my cries tumble
Down the mountainside of solitude
To die in the sea of completedness
Where a great white plume will rise
Against the blue of unfathomable peace
So the holy wind
Can carry the spray to caress you
Know it then, love
That it is my breath that lifts you
The kiss of God
Thrust forth from the place of my Missing Rib
Know that I have heard you
And I have run with all my strength
With a heart desperate for your name
Know that I will reach for you
That's hell's breath and stench
Will not quell my hunger
For the silken incarnation of your skin
The taste of your lips
And the honey of your voice
Speaking my name
Stephen Pursell, 8/98
Were you there every moment
Did you bleed when I bled
A soul torn before the idols of the fallen
Only this could buy one such as you
Now a chest overflowing
Each a diamond
Every gash, every blow
A love so great to have bled for so long
And I will know it is you, love
Sing in the language that only you and I know
Sing to me your song
Then tell me of your journey
Like a forest of scorpions' tails
Lusting for your blood
If so, then you know me
Whipped out and after your limbs
Have the tentacles of hopelessness
Has a spasm of bottomless pain encoiled your heart
Neglected and sold into faceless pain
Overlooked and abandoned
Have you been used and forgotten
Would you show me the wound
Do you have the courage to let your eyes speak it
Thirst and nakedness and selflessness and faith
Have you too wrestled a great demon
And withstood its poisonous stare
Do you know its name
Could you draw the face
Have you hung from the edge of the abyss
Have you gripped the burning blade
And choked on the wind of lies
What has haunted the crevasse of your soul
What weapon does it carry