Stranded

She has rejected, me infinite times. But it falls upon deafness.

My love is scaly with rust, and tarnished past repair. It is still strong as the instant of our first embrace.

I am helpless, for it is within her chilled edifice alone where I breathe.

Unable to depart, unable to refuse, weakened to my inner soul.

Strength enough only to await her next command. My heart knows it will never be uttered.

The red early December moon avows a frigid rain as it floods my deepest desires.

The final breeze passes it's mark, and not a single ember remains.

Stranded in the embrace and memories of love denied.

-Johnny V.

Broken Dreams

I take no joy as the sun peeks above the horizon, as it begins its daily walk.

Slowly it crosses the dry barren oasis once portrayed as my heart.

Her love storm appeared falsely, posing as a quiet gentle rain.

The sweet scent of lilacs and roses, her bitter temptation.

She turns and steps away as cold envelopes my very being.

The memory of warmth is as distant as the final star.

There is not a stir from the brutal deadly hounds guarding his lair, for they have memorized my scent.

I have exhausted long futile hours here, desperate for Lucifer's council begging to understand her needs.

But alas he is powerless to reach her way-ward soul, she is alone in her moral stance.

I am left to caress my lonely and shattered dreams of what never could have been.

-Johnny V.

Destruction

The first moment my eyes spied her I knew I was changed forever.

My love for her was unstoppable, my desire unbound.

Matched solely by the ache she would bestow.

This can only end in destruction, but I cannot walk away.

I'm forever her vassal,
her strength feeds upon my weakened flesh.

I've built her altar from the scars of a thousand lonely nights.

But still her rejection weighs on my spirit, like rumors of bad weather.

-Johnny V.