Altar in your thighs

Candle wax dripping down your ribcage, red stain on white

Shadow puppets on the drywall, dancing slow in the low light

You pull me in like confession, mouth pressed over my sins

Say “get on your knees, boy,” I don’t even know where to begin

Velvet hymn on your whisper, fingernails under my skin

You got a choir in your breathing, singing “don’t you dare repent”

Every heartbeat sounds like church bells breaking

Every breath you steal feels holy and vacant

You got an altar in your thighs, I’m worshipping between them

Tongue on your halo while your halo’s slowly bleeding

You ride me like a sermon, hands wrapped in my hair

If this is sacrilege, I don’t care…

Make a martyr out of me under flickering lights

I’ll find God in the tremor of your spine ….tonight

Lipstick smeared on my collar, like a blessing gone wrong

You trace a cross on my chest, say “boy, you’ve been dirty too long”

You taste like wine and danger, like a psalm that got banned

Drag your teeth down my neck, write scripture in bite marks and hands

Headboard knocking like a drumline, stained glass in your eyes

You tell me “speak in tongues,” and I do, between your sighs

Every shiver feels like thunder in the rafters

Every scratch you leave rewrites my …chapter

You got an altar in your thighs, I’m worshipping between them

Tongue on your halo while your halo’s slowly bleeding

You ride me like a sermon, hands wrapped in my hair

If this is sacrilege, I don’t care…

Make a martyr out of me under flickering lights

I’ll find God in the tremor of your spine …..tonight

(soft)

Kiss me like a warning sign…

Drag me to the edge of your design…

Make me choose between my faith and your nails in my back…

(scream)

AND I’LL CRAWL TO YOUR BED LIKE IT’S MY LAST ATTACK

I DON’T WANT SALVATION, I JUST WANT YOU

HALO ON THE FLOOR, SWEAT LIKE PERFUME

PRAY WITH YOUR HIPS, SPEAK WITH YOUR TEETH

BAPTIZE ME IN WHATEVER YOU BLEED

IF THIS IS HELL THEN TURN THE HEAT HIGH

I’LL DIE SMILING BETWEEN YOUR THIGHS

You got an altar in your thighs, I’m worshipping between them

Tongue on your halo while your halo’s slowly bleeding

You ride me like a sermon, nails buried in my skin

If this is blasphemy, then let the sin begin

Make a martyr out of me under flickering lights

I’ll meet God in the tremor of your spine ….tonight