Widow’s Kiss has been published in All of Me Vol. VI, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. Featured art is by Thomas Dodd.

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Forevermore I’m spun
Spun
Spun yeah
Forevermore I’m spun
Spun
Spun yeah
Forevermore I’m spun

Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expel
Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expel
Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expel
Swimming eclipse to replenish the well

Dressed to kill
The spiderwoman violates her prey
Gossamer and ash exact sweet rapture of decay
Dextrous this vender of arachnid distemper
Janus-faced her brash embrace
Yet unmatched in her splendour

Her bite is one long kiss goodnight
Tomorrows notwithstanding
The sorrows of her quarry
She no less than has a hand in
The hollows of her eyes delight the very flies she bids affright
Coals exposing blackest night
Never one time dappled light

Forevermore I’m spun
Forevermore I’m spun
(Spun)

My heart bled red with fire
And crackled valiant and true
As I rode astride her chariot
Enamoured of the view
Angels and demons
Proclaimed their allegiance
Of no known impedance
So whole was our truth

My heart bled red with fire
And crackled valiant and true
As I rode astride her chariot
Enamoured of the view
Angels and demons
Proclaimed their allegiance
Of no known impedance
So whole was our truth

Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expel
Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expel
Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expel
Swimming eclipse to replenish the well

We danced in the flames
Advanced past bitter fates
Avant-garde dinner dates
Hearts unmasked
And ablaze
Deeper and deeper we fell beneath spell
Heavenly creatures undressed of our hells
Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expelled
Swimming eclipse to replenish the well
Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expelled
Swimming eclipse to replenish the well

Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expel
Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expel
Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expel
Swimming eclipse to replenish the well

Dressed to kill
The spiderwoman has me in her sights
Feel her toxins coursing through my veins and this delights
Tangled in her web
Intrigued to see my own demise
Drown my every sorrow in the hollows of her eyes

My heart bled red with fire
And crackled valiant and true
As I rode astride her chariot
Enamoured of the view
Angels and demons
Proclaimed their allegiance
Of no known impedance
So whole was our truth

Forevermore I’m spun
(Spun)
Forevermore I’m spun
(Spun)
Forevermore I’m spun
(Spun)

My heart bled red with fire
And crackled valiant and true
As I rode astride her chariot
Enamoured of the view
Angels and demons
Proclaimed their allegiance
Of no known impedance
So whole was our truth

We danced in the flames
Advanced past bitter fates
Avant-garde dinner dates
Hearts unmasked
And ablaze
Deeper and deeper we fell beneath spell
Heavenly creatures undressed of our hells
Kissing death’s lips with the breaths we expelled
Swimming eclipse to replenish the well

Sat astride her victim
The tangled web she weaves then twists
To bind the wrists while priming lips
For one long kiss goodnight

One long kiss goodnight
(Night)
One long kiss goodnight
(Night)
One long kiss goodnight
(Night)
(Nigh)

Forevermore I’m spun
Spun
Spun yeah

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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