Astral Undoing
Bleed for me, Aurora –
bleed your soul into my sky.
Your spectral, screen-burn glow
to shock my restless heart alive.
Scream with me, Aurora –
scream your streaky malachite.
Let me hail the air you breathe into,
and drink my lungs alight.
Unravel me, Aurora –
spin your sorcery tonight.
I crave your astral undoing
like a moth to arson's light.
Haunt me, dear Aurora –
make every midnight sting
until I cannot feel the darkness;
only you hiding within.
Kat Novus is a UK-based poet using words as a medium to create awareness, understanding, and encourage empathy and compassion. With work themed around mental health, those indescribable emotions, and with lived experience of autism and mental illness, she creates hope and gives words to the voiceless within her Instagram community @kat.novus.