Blind Me from Secret Beasts by Avi C. Engel

blind me to what has seduced me
hold me down as long as it takes
for these shivers to subside
for these illuminations to die
for these scintillant onyx fires
to blind me

blind me to what has seduced me
numb me to what i have touched
i know that i got just what i asked for
i didn't know that i'd asked for this much

blind me to what has seduced me
bind all my joys one by one
shackle my blisses and burn them
every bright feather returning to dust

bloody echoes down the walls of these prisons
of our bodies
as wings torn
from a dove
fly on deep into the ether
o lord
how this house turns to dust

bloody echoes down the walls of these prisons
in your chest
trapped a wounded dove
always hungry for vengeance
or for mercy
always yearning
to return to dust

protect me from all my desire
numb me to the one i love

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