Velvet & Venom
Where desire grows thorns. Poetry of dark romance, temptation, obsession, intimacy, dangerous devotion, and the beautiful things we know better than to touch.
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A song once promised the ordinary miracle of growing old together; survival rewrites that future so the children can still grow, just without him.
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A love song called Tomorrow once promised a future; years later, it becomes proof that tenderness and danger once lived in the same story.
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A song begging her not to go once sounded like devotion; later, it reveals how easily being needed can masquerade as being loved.
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He knew he needed to change, and that knowledge became the very thing that kept hope alive long after recognition stopped meaning action.
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A poem about being accused of playing games when the relationship had always been painfully real.
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One person’s heartbreak barely interrupts the other’s night out, revealing how unevenly love can end.
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A cruel sentence reduces an entire relationship to sex, forcing a woman to separate being wanted from being loved.
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A private body is turned into public spectacle, exposing not the woman in the photograph but the entitlement of the person who shared it.
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The wall keeps the mark even when memory tries to minimize it: something sharp crossed the room, and someone was standing there.
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He always missed, but survival eventually stops treating bad aim as mercy and names the violence for what it was.
