Slender boyish shoulders
Marble indifference
Drape these haunting visions
in an embrace.
Immobile, enthralled
Delirious to the touch,
Petrified in memory.
Awakening to fever
No leaden hope crushes,
Pinned down, splayed
& trapped, still alive.
Deliver me or destroy me.
Ready to succumb
to internal bleeding.
Ravaging thoughts,
the mob has gathered
in a solitary figure
to raze the twilit sky
and scourge ruins.
Sudden
Chest inflamed
Scalding ash; cinder
disintegration.
Collapsing in denying arms,
Vesuvius ejaculates
breaming white fire
to blacken the soul.