daggers of faith

what they told you was a lie
darling, salvation isn't always on the other side.

heroin moonlight shaking
the baleful blackness away
in umber covers under--
cover, we recite an our father
crumbling dialectic deceit (crushing
hyperbolic heartrates, we'll trade:
prescription beans for magic pills, your
name and mirrors
for trembling daylit daggers of faith)
who carries god's golf clubs
when the angels are on their knees?

go back to sleep and dream
-- the simeltaneous shadow of
thoughtime walking with you, tracing
the gentle curve of your back, whispering
delicate crystalline sunlight into
your overflowing heart til it
s - h - a - t - t - e - r - s
and the fever of faith
is nothing but an unfinished glass
of red wine
two sky tablets and
your drunk ghost screamingrinning at dawn.