My visitor, with seeming diffidence, withhholds her visitations until dark. She scorns a gift of mattresses and gowns To make a racking bed inside my bones. Repudiated by the light, she weeps Great tears that replicate her eyes. I bathe in the cascade of that gaze.
A fearful pang like love anticipates This apparition, emptied of its ardor. Twist of fate In my own tortuous course, How did you navigate within this labyrinth? You bleed a man so cloaked in wounds No flesh remains for blades or arrows.