Chapter 30: Do you think love can bloom even on a battlefield?

Poems 2Words: 917

my blood is spilled on sacred grounds

now smeared over your mouth like lipstick

from when you tried to kiss my wounds

to make it all better like when we were kids

and we are hiding from the world

the pain the suffering waiting on us

on the other side of the door

of this so-called House of "God" wooden

forgotten abandoned if not for our love blasphemous

war raging in our lives all we've ever known

was the unforgiving battlefield guns in our hands

bullets flying corpses for friends goodbyes over hellos

until you until you until you

you are my world and you are not war you are sacred

your hello turned into my forever home

and in these crumbling ruins of a church

before the altar under colourful stained glass windows

I ask for your hand your life your love

and promise you the same in return

for better for worse for richer for poorer in sickness in health

if death us depart then I'll find you in the afterlife