Deadly Words

The music made
With words
trickled down
Her skin like
Perfumed night,
jasmine-scented
Twilight shadows
Twisting through
Her veins like
Icy nightshade.

Such were his
Words in tender
Heartbeats uttered.
Never had
'I loved you'
Killed so
Accurately -
So deadly
In a moment.

© Eleanor Clark
9 January 2014