I WILL WRITE IN WORDS OF FIRE - by Neil Gaiman

[threeplusfire]

I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin.

You're the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth.

You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You're my letter to desire: And you'll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma

As the final dusk descends, You're my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends.

-Neil Gaiman

(How badly, terribly do I want this print of this poem.)

Comments

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

http://io9.com/5911699/watch-neil-gaimans-delightful-commencement-speech-about-succeeding-in-the-arts

If you haven't seen this yet, run to your laptop and watch it. 20 minutes of utter joy. ;-)

[p-m-cryan.livejournal.com]

I needed to see this today. Thank you, Anton.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read his account of how he was idly reading someone's tattoo... and realized it was a quotation of his work?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I've always loved that.

[alainn-sorcha.livejournal.com]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/cconnelly/yet-another-reason-why-neil-gaiman-is-awesome-s3x

I must say, not being much of a fan of Gaiman's or of poetry, I kind of love this.

[siria.livejournal.com]

This is one of my favourite poems. <3