With Devils I will Travel by p3titexburial, literature
Literature
With Devils I will Travel
and the devil says
saccharine smile impossibly sweet
if you let me
i can take you away
for we shall walk until your soul runs dry
traverse the seas
and scour the skies
kill the gods
just you and i
we shall leave this world wanting
until you, wild and unfettered
grow beautiful, like me
in absence and desire
all your roads lead back to me
and time shall be a generous child
holding our hands
smiling sweetly
as we walk down the road
to the horizon that lies beyond
time shall gently etch
the grooves of age
laugh lines and crows feet
to the planes of our faces
we will catch eachother's eye and know
that the years it has given us
were very good indeed
time will be a quiet child,
reaching out to softly grasp our hearts
and even though sometimes we fear
the uncertainties of tomorrow,
the doubts that have branded themselves upon its soul
we will not give up
this charge we've been so blessed to keep
for, despite our imperfect existance
there is no better mother
In the wide expanse of a starry night sky, he looks up and wonders when he's going home.
At that moment, he remembers the sunrises he watched, the rose he loved, and the little planet he called his own.
But then he looks back down to earth and sees the man he's befriended, thinks of the fox he's tamed, the snake he trusts, and finds that the decision to go "home" is harder than he realizes.
She doesn't know how to fix him, all lonely and melancholy, vomiting suffering and swallowing angst, mind full of lost lovers and and heart broken to more pieces than she could ever hope to pick up. More than the glue at her fingertips can fix.
Those pieces are sharp, edges that look harmless but cut deep, and the holes and cracks and crevasses that line her hasty patchwork are more like canyons and dunes and a hundred different mazes that only he can navigate.
And sometimes, just sometimes she gets a tiny bit angry--he won't take her hand, guide her shoulder, pull her along, and lead her through, explain, open, because, she thinks, he does