As we venture into a new cold month, Vanessa Matic delights us with a warming poem. Read it after the break.

LIGHT BEARER

To the night of no stars calling me
I use to dream on this pillow I sleep
Your hair into my arms I longed to kiss
you now and now I am down and I no
longer long to kiss you now

For I am too far down

I climb on sulfur skin a dark lair is in my
mind I gave myself and skin to the darkness
Black acres they claimed me

Where you use to fill everything
It was really nothing

Before long days that solitude could await
Now it is escape and like wet lilies in my
mouth the taste of a bitter kiss

My sadness I am use to..
It’s a pain that stays

Driven in my bones thriving thru my veins
That’s what has filled the abyss the never
ending void for my child like like was too
absorbed to know you could never know
Then Mars stood beneath me everything
was slow in speed

That was your love
That was your body
To ever more be

What a foolish thing to carry a heart
A stupid heart there’s no light there
It is only in the dark, that is why the
foolish heart does not see where it
is going.. Locked inside it’s vessel in
a dark lonely place it only races in
taste

A foolish heart
For it is in that darkness yet it bares
light I call it Lucifer

Give my longing to hell
I forgot to pray on my knees
I knelt upon Love, a disease

Lament my delirium in the madness
That tapes me to the death grave of
my heart an avalanche from the start
And where you go I follow but I follow
No more

Vanessa Matic