space oasis // soular paradise

[xephemiance]

Will you-- if you do, take me back,
back into the darkness
of your embrace
where my body is yours again

the yearning to submit, to all
the forms you take and the voices
that you speak through
will you command me again

to lose myself to paralysis,
comatose within you, anesthetize me
before you cut the vessels
that stray too far from our heart

you, I am close by--
just a thin veil
if you feel me stagnate,
pierce through, and swallow me

into a pool of warm, black
intoxicant that pours
from the edges of your core
the deepest sleep it gives

dreams of death
that put life to shame,
a drought knows that all is ending,
blissfully complete

primitive our souls
that we suffer without
spare us visions of saviors,
messiahs of the desert

the cure prospers in the oasis
floats in the deepest space
and the reflection
off your waters

tell of galaxies
with stars like fish eyes
that shine
and see nothing