A Portrait, The Way Zombies Lovers Embrace

By Bella Butchery

Your eyes are a milky dead ice
In such a dull light
That spark plutos jealousy
Through a cold frail night

I watched you dance
In a closed down cabaret….

I stumbled and fell
So I crawled instead
But you just smiled
A luring composition

Still your heart spits fire
Delicate butane
A faded neon blue to let
Varicose veins map finger trails
In a slow motion silent film

Black nails scrape your back
Peel away
Layers of snow flakes
In a calming heave
Arms detach
Split / separate
Between the sheets
To bleached skin
Wrapped into a decomposed kiss

Your dark hair setting the scene
Flowed a bleak anomaly
To which was my undoing

“Do you still think I am beautiful?”

“You have always been my life and my death.
More tragic then the frost bitten violet orchids we used to admire
Your gaze stops time, and sets my soul afire.”

Dancing in a closed down cabaret…

The haunt of your scent
I forgot in the pyre
Soil soaked memories
Are mixed with desire

Settle down
We lay in the dark

We lay restless

Our moment
Tore infinity
Lye coats the beats
That once bound our
pulse

Lay still
Just lay next to me
Just stay
Don’t go away

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Published on Friday, January 26, 2007. Filed under: "Poetry"

Comments on "A Portrait, The Way Zombies Lovers Embrace"

On Wednesday, July 11, 2007, Revisable Retina (81) wrote:

I wanted more of this romance that folds out before the eyes of the reader "Do you still think im beautiful" How many times did I ask of my love the same question but never once was I told "you have always been my life and my death" *heart drops in chest*
On Wednesday, July 11, 2007, Revisable Retina (81) wrote:

Could love be a made up myth could the goddess of love (Venus) truly have loved? Maybe love only comes once in a life time and once its gone thats it over and done no more love for you.. what a sad thing it can be to love. :(
On Wednesday, July 11, 2007, Revisable Retina (81) wrote:

Why must love be so complicated? When everything falls apart around you and your love and you are still standing yes its a beautiful thing but why in love do you have to endure test after test these days always having to prove your love to the other
On Tuesday, July 10, 2007, sIo (898) wrote:

where has your loving touch of words gone to....
A former member wrote: this poem is very chilling and serene..most people have never been able to partake in such a pleasure..no sense of shame or disgust even though the content alludes to the un dead or living dead or just falling apart.. must use up every part of this dying
On Wednesday, March 21, 2007, Bella Butchery (696) wrote:

ha! well you totally got the point. falling apart together. one of the most romantic things i could ever think up.
A former member wrote: Ha! loved this -definitely my fave of yours -blinding lines -'...to let varicose veins map finger trails in a slow motion silent film' -fantastic
On Wednesday, February 7, 2007, Tonights Decision (132) wrote:

this imagery is so vivid, truly awesome
On Friday, February 2, 2007, TropicalSnowstorm (1580) wrote:

That was fantastically twisted! ...I think I need I cold shower now...I love zombie chicks...blue nipples in the moonlight... : ) Ciao, T/S
On Friday, February 2, 2007, purr_verse (1052) wrote:

This rocks. The format is excellent, the passion disturbing, abstract andyet direct; and several lines/couplets that I love but this one - "Still your heart spits fire / Delicate butane" - rules extra hard. *ovation*
A former member wrote: you're far better than i, mister. i am but a lowly form of art.. you are the epitome of beauty.
On Thursday, February 1, 2007, Bella Butchery (696) wrote:

whoaw, flattery will get you everywhere, but i digress, it is you WHO EVERYONE SHOULD CHECK OUT! HEAR THAT PEOPLE! CHECK OUT EVIL OR DIE BY THE HAND OF JUST SHOOT!
A former member wrote: haha. silly boyyy.
On Wednesday, January 31, 2007, lstdarkness (26) wrote:

imagery at its best. The description drives the poem. Great write...
On Wednesday, January 31, 2007, Lynaes (854) wrote:

oh.. my god. From the first verse my heart beat sped up, such shockingly luminous images! "your heart spits fire/bleached skin/frost bitten violet orchids."..
On Wednesday, January 31, 2007, Lynaes (854) wrote:

This was like a Zombie version of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory to me.. Fuckin' delicious. I love your work.
A former member wrote: God this was amazing!!!!!!!
On Tuesday, January 30, 2007, zanewill (82) wrote:

what a beautiful dark soliliquy!!!
On Tuesday, January 30, 2007, zanewill (82) wrote:
On Monday, January 29, 2007, Tania (192) wrote:

This aint nada..its magic..one of my personal favourites
On Sunday, January 28, 2007, aCiD aNgEL (31) wrote:

you are a brilliant poet... simply brilliant... really encouraged me to pick up my poet pen again... but really what a great write!!!
On Friday, January 26, 2007, jack paper (121) wrote:

creepy but cool and somehow strangely romantic....
On Friday, January 26, 2007, The Zebra Warrior (1495) wrote:

absolutely!!
On Friday, January 26, 2007, Mylissa (825) wrote:

raw and seductive...wonderful write.
A former member wrote: "Black nails scrape your back Peel away Layers of snow flakes In a calming heave" beautiful and vivid write..the first line drew me in and this stayed amazing throughout. nice job as always.
On Friday, January 26, 2007, Aunty Depressant (423) wrote:

Makes me almost want to do the dead(undead?)...you made it so romantic.
On Friday, January 26, 2007, Sin (1135) wrote:

orgasm indeed..this was morbidly sweet..in an i want to devour you sort of way, and that last stanza was..beautiful, much respect ~kristy
A former member wrote: I almost couldn't read the last lines. I didn't want it to stop. It pulled me in deeper and deeper as I went. Instant favorite, my friend.