A Black Wedding,

Draft 1:

My melancholic bride.

Made to wear black, instead of white. 

Locked in this chamber of grief so grey,

More of a wake than a wedding day. 

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Notes;

The wick blackens the wax,

Wed by night, not by daylight.

Now bound within, domestic darkness,

Confess 

Lacks 

Touchings

Mortal

Agony

Mourning

Mourn

Death draped

Blood-laced

Coffin lid

Curse

Domestic darkness

Dangerous, domestic darkness

Perpetual darkness, death, disease,

Haunting 

Wintering

Falling asleep

Bed and blankets - touchings of ice,

Pillow slips of snow

All weddings end in blood

To my arrest and unrest 

Screaming into the wind