A Monster With a Familiar Name

What angels are born of tragedies?

And what monsters are born when they realize

They're not out of the darkness yet?

Venom is cried out of swollen eyes

And the monster asks if that is the broken creature's last defense

In a rage he smears her inky black tears in the crevices of

Her translucent skin 

Pretending that he cannot see her bleeding heart

That she cannot see his

He poisons her blood stream with her own pain

Thinking that it was intended for him

Instead her soul like an ephemeral moth

Is caught in the world's flame