Sweat cascading lines down imperial skin,

gilding silhouettes stencil walls of moonlight: emit,

reasoning as betrayal never quite hits sensory organ within,

slaughtered emotions scattered upon clotted floors amid;

Pearled sheets sway of oceanic screens,

over reigned by shaded rouse and whimpered: green,

simper carols mouth at astonishment;

enraging creeps up spine,

along frazzled arms,

down towards contorting fingers inflamed of: spite,

fairness spells reciprocated harm;

one of us,

perhaps, even all seethe in rounds of tussle,

grapples to whom wears a liars' truss,

subsequently –

an eye, or two: for a fatal cut.