Rust and Reverance

He walks like a ghost through the soot and the gears

Eyes made of ruin, lips stained with years

His breath is a whisper of copper and flame

And still I call him, still I stay

He sleeps where the sun cannot touch what he’s been

A thousand regrets stitched under his skin

But in the hush of the steam and the dark

He holds me like I’m still a spark

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Loving him is rust and reverence

Clockwork blood and consequence

He drinks the night and dreams of light

While I give him what time forgets

It’s knives and lace, a curse, a grace

A kiss that tastes of violence

But I would bleed a hundred ways

To love him in this silence

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His smile is a war between mercy and need

A mouth made for ruin, but soft when it feeds

I bear his marks like medals, not chains

Each one a hymn written into my veins

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Loving him is rust and reverence

A storm beneath an elegance

He hides his teeth, but not his grief

And I cradle all his penance

It’s ash and oil, it’s blood and coil

It’s knowing how it ends

But I would walk through fire and fog

To love him once again

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They warned me not to hold a blade

That hungers when it loves

But darling, what’s a heart

If it don’t bruise when it trusts?

Let them fear what we become

Let them call it sin

I’ll take the shadows, take the fangs

Just to let him in

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Loving him is rust and reverence

A vow carved out of consequence

He’s midnight dressed in mourning bells

And I’m the song he can’t forget

It’s moonlight drowned in furnace smoke

And breath I’d give again

So let the world wind down and break

I’ll love him to the end

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Let the world wind down and break...

I’ll love him to the end