Intoxicant

I close my eyes, she takes my universe down

To atoms, breaks old bonds with each electron kiss

Each nucleic collision, I beg of her elements

To break me down, watch the energy transfer

From light to darkness, from the fiery stars passion

To the voids that keep them pinned

Against a blanket of sky, underneath which I

Am devouring all that is offered

A sacrifice at the altars of the flesh

Each moment's seeming perfection undermined by the next

I am escalation, ascension, the devil come to take you

To every end, I close my eyes

I take her purity down

To essence, swallow her as a drug, watch my vision swirl

And etch the image of her lying before me

Into my eyelids

Watch the heavens rain their tears, watch the worldly come to an end

As the clouds surround and scream aloud

Over the sound of humanity fading

She begs me take her now, to seize the swelling tides

And pull them to my lips, from the new moon's quiet hold

To the fullness of our passion

Addressed, undressed, and left aching

For the altered consciousness and heavy breathing

For the molecular breakdown preceding

The spiritual awakening we've been seeking

We close our eyes, tonight

We are free.