confessions of an ardent heart

here's to our embrace of blessedness and to forbidden places we caress
if you'll please let me pare away your skin i'll return the favor with a kiss
fortunes fail like lover's grasp and veins are raped by broken glass
to trace your bloody outline in the snow
and so it goes a child? a dream?
a wayfarer proclaims that we will one day burn together in the sky.
besides the stars will soon align to sigh and tell of fortunes better left unsaid
i'll cross my fingers begging for your breath
crane your neck so i can see your chest where my once ardent heart still rests
and i'll rid that chest of carnal sin so i can rest my face there once again
but dear my face is buried in my hands and stands devoting words and sentences to you
in truth dividing greens and blues to hear a dream a child a wayward subtlety
for once i see the casualty the waning moon the dying sun that christless smile
and you've defiled the only heart that beats for you alone