Devout: An Anthology of Angels
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She thought of the bees that nestled between the petals, their wings crystalline under the sun. They did not worship the nectar; they were themselves divine.
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It was sin, what he wanted Dani to do to him, but it would be blissful all the same.
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As terrible and unforgivable as she was, he didn’t want her to be dead.
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If I don’t eat or drink, I may never be able to start again.
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I am no angel. I am not bringing about the end times with trumpets and a body made of fire.
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And in the middle of it all, me, dirty and human with slick thighs and a wicked tongue, so unlike an angel.
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he’s a follower of Lucifer, he’s a monster, and everywhere is Hell.
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His heat spreads against their cheek like wings,
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flaxen-haired Lucifer opening his pretty pink mouth to sing.
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With all the shadows that clouded my mind, you’ve been like sunshine to me.”
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You heard cherubic choirs at birth, tast’d prayer’s potent nectar.
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Heaven at last: to be utterly devout, and devoured.
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sweet angels, pray for these damned souls, torn askew by the tempest of lust
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Give me every drop of you, give me even your blood, I’ve been soulless for too long, and left emptied, needing to be whole again
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hear the devil and our chief prince, laughing, Let all the lovers be jealous of us, they say, they will never love like we do