In a gentle darkness, you exist.

1.
Loved one! Newborn thorn, cast to my cradle lightly! Cross the sill; step in.
I - who was cast too, more darkly, once-divine, and fashioned in ashes of rejection - have now naught but love. For the breath in your hollows stirring your blood heart and the smouldering seed in your tomb-bone soul.
Eternity is solace, and so sink! This womb’s embrace is milk and silk. Carved from mourning when the dust was suns, I set to bless this empty land. Wailing, splashed in pain, I bore storms until I burned. Now those sad ghost seeds, once hissing, grow over vales to where they kiss the vaults.
The air lies still as cinders and the black silence bloodless as stones. Sing in this deathless vista and hear no sorrow for its starved pallor, but see the thick pollen laced in life and drink from timeless vessels. Every spark is of compassion and every sip carries songs of a lover’s touch.


2.
Ah, a leaf on wind! A wayward dancer, flailing. Carried further, loved one, sailing. Dashing maelstroms rage hard past this land. My roots are balm; my shield the salve for scalding paths.
Seek redemption, soft feather, or some respite? Know that all black silence here melts to light, with time. Time that winds the coils of once-blind tightly. 
Why would you leave this sacred place, this midnight sanctuary? What quest can be so noble? Ignore this fever of the heart, this hopeless jewelled call. Uncover hidden truths at peril; nooks should not be naked mouths.

Veil this forked longing. The flame of hope has rot as well as promise, and should not be carried lightly.
Journey solely if at all. Love blinds the spinning cry of self.


3.
Further still! Loved one, my verge is here. As you pass, know this: beyond is tangled. Abjection. Locked jaws and all the bones asunder.
This void road is fraught. Laden with damnation, not salvation. Iatrogenesis! From the self! Your horror stems from your fear of violence! Sink deep into my hollows and turn again to nature. With me! Decompose fearlessly and then we are the spheres themselves. 
Loved one, hear my last cry! O, sink into my mask.
If not, then dash yourself on shards of light. Self-annihilation! Infernal torment! Fester!
Perpetual night. Abyss. You wish suffering to recast your limbs? Pain is nature. Adverse teeth.
Nothing more. 


5.
Please don’t leave.