If you somersault down a hill, you’ll get dizzy

that devil drug
his claws across my neck
until his knife found
the soft spot of my jugular

he cackled and hissed
while he spit my pure-
blood from his lips

And now I beg
the bigger devil to twirl
the angel inside my breast
impregnate her with your evil
and seal her with your wild-eyed kiss

for tonight I fall
for the brutality of those
who have never know the hand
of a mother or a father

for those who have failed
to find the light in a blinding embrace
and for those who have never loved
and those who are forever remiss

my knees have shattered
upon his alter

there is no other place to go
except for home....

~Mrs