Dayspring

by Anthony Oliveira

break my heart as many times as you need to i am yours

love is what ruins. love is what costs. love is a flaming sword at our backs a garden left to ruin and to wild gone to seed

i am lost but even in the wilderness, i would know you

don’t pray in public those that do have already got what they wanted out of it and it had nothing to do with god

and they came to him and asked: if heaven’s so real then what happens if a woman marries seven times like if her husbands keep dying so she had seven husbands whose wife will she be in heaven? and he said: please do not ask me stupid fucking questions

and of having the people you love take you at your word without wanting to see the scars

i would harrow the field and stone of the world to find you across inches and centuries it’s only death that’s all what is that to love