my heart beats with the rhythm of a falling snow

petals covering the black flesh - white and pale

veins of lapis lazuli

pumping blue through frozen landscape

the ice-kissed blood; condemned by gods

drank slowly by a vampire of longing

lost between crimson lips

painted with pallid strokes

a desire for something unreachable

life filled with paths unattended

lips sewn with forbidden wishes

tongue pierced with iron, tangled within vines

a twisted hunger for something I can never have