Lilith

Lilith

I have loved you since the beginning

And your chamber of carcasses

Abandoned by this world

The offcuts

The outcasts

Your love took them in.

Lilith

Your fierceness has always found refuge

inside the chambers of my own heart

I have stood in the face of oppression and control

With your fire in my eyes hissing

“not on my watch”

Lilith

I have taken you into my body

I have danced, shook and orgasmed you into form

I have roared in quiet rooms and bled over white sheets

I have pried cages apart with your claws

And peeled away the skins of my taming

Lilith

I have stood for your wild knowing

I too have refused to lie down

To quietly comply or submit

I have wielded your chaos like a hurricane

Refusing the shelter of a world that denies you

Lilith

Through your dark gaze

I have seared your crone into my flesh

And the furrowed sagging skin of your cunt

I have loved

I have crouched under ancient trees

Haggard and cackling

Singing to skin and bones

Alive and hideous

Lilith

Through you

I have embraced sin

With deep devotion

I have built churches on shit, piss and cum

I have been sodomised by lords of impurity

I have swallowed

shadows

In the name of love

Your love

Lilith

You are the first and the last

There is a place at my obsidian table eternally set for you

Lilith

What if in that first meeting you were celebrated

What if Adam said yes to you

Yes to the power of your primal nature

Yes to your fierceness

What if you were loved from the beginning

Not having to fight to be you

What if instead you were given a throne in heaven

One made from vines and bark

And blood

Lilith