Slowest Burn

Laid at your cruel mercy

Resting in my glory, pretty and whole

In the afterglow of awe and euphoria

The wait was thankless and long

Breath undone, my prayers in silence

The violence of wanting and despair

The demons in my mind

All the shadows coming from within

Vibrating to the touch of the light

The sins in our apocryphals

We fall from the grace we forge

And we conquer havens in the sky

Promise me death and life

Through hell and through time

The misery and delight of who we are

I'll witness you with my love

I'll bathe you in my own blood

To overcome and dance in the dark 

Through crazy twists and turns

The hottest flame and slowest burn

The one who came from afar

Brokenhearted with ashes in his hand

Fate is your ally and your alibi

You dared me calling it by it's name

Claiming rituals and confessions

And concessions for it to come alive

This lonely elation wraps me in its ruin

Consumed in the purest of the wantings

And in it's little deaths it's satisfied

In your arms I’m neither saint nor sinner

I'm a spirit craving for transcendence

And flesh burning in candlelight