INTRO No one moved... but everything changed. Like roses... exploding... in slow motion... You looked at me like a question with no punctuation The room bent sideways listening to us breathe Static opening its mouth beneath my ribs Smoke hanging blue against your teeth Nobody touched anybody still the petals filled the night filled the night... night... night... Something in the silence cracked softly... violently... Like fate pulling pins with elegant fingers You held the air like a blade holds light Roses exploding in slow motion Scarlet constellations in the dark Every glance pulling shrapnel through the room Every word hanging by a thread don't look too long... You and I in suspended focus Half divine and half destroyed Roses exploding in slow motion Too beautiful to survive King and queen with sharpened tongues Drinking from the same eclipse Two cold minds in formal clothing Trying not to taste the risk Death card face-up on the table Black lipstick transformation Four swords sleeping in candlelight While the room changed shape around us around us... around us... Every second stretched like gold Every inhale felt illegal You said nothing and my whole body translated it I knew exactly what this was. Roses exploding in slow motion Thorns and perfume in the same breath You standing there like revelation Me romanticizing wreckage again No collision No confession Still the whole room came apart Roses exploding in slow motion Inside the cathedral of the heart Roses... exploding... slow motion... Petals frozen in the afterglow Your eyes like beautifully restrained disaster Every silence opening wider Every moment arriving after [layered whispers become nearly subconscious] death... transformation... stay... stay... No one moved... but everything changed.
