how this fire rages
cutting at my feet
I hate you
and I know that you hate me, too,
I can tell by the shutters of your eyes
they close like a portcullis at my voice,
the way that your fists clench and your teeth clamp
you bring your own but chew on my darkness,
a strange courtship that’s banished truth
such a strange fire that rages about you,
blood needs to be spilled here
and we will spill it,
choke the life from each other
and bleed knelt at the feet of the victor,
I wish to taste your dim-mak
in the darkness a shaft of light echoes in your eyes,
I can see like me you’re ready to die
lets do this now and not think twice about it,
I have an electricity in my blood
it has burnt in my veins all my life,
as a child I learnt and sweated my craft
as did you, opposite and along side me,
now your responses are given away by my senses
the ebony plumes hide your clambering swing,
you can’t win even though you’re quicker than I
I have no heart and don’t care if to kill you i’ll die,
my left counters your right
my thoughts are countered by your left,
a clash of heads
and you fall,
crumbling to the floor at my feet
I glance down to see you grinning back at me,
the glint in your eyes
from the shafts of moonlight creeping,
my blood trickling all over you
as I stand there in the static blackness,
knuckles and forehead cut
a shattered bathroom mirror cutting my feet,
in each shard your manic grin snarls back
there’s no escape from the ghost of myself,
breathing slow and long, I’ve won this skirmish
though I’m not sure if I’m equipped to win this war,
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