some time ago i read good omens and thought “great book, but what if crowley were gay, a great writer, and somewhat sexually involved with aziraphale?” and, me being me, i wrote a poem on this concept entitled “What If An Angel And A Demon Fell In Love? Wouldn’t That Be Nifty?” and today it won me a hundred fucking dollars in a poetry contest. so take that neil gaiman
Oh lover, you’re a triumph, an undone calamity
As flagrantly forbidden as the fruit up Eden’s tree
I’m coiled like a caliphate; your hand crawls up my thigh
The only of the seven sins you never can denyYou’ll never say you love me, though; you can’t admit you care
You won’t admit you love me like the drowning love the air
You claim that I am nothing but the pride before the fall
And maybe I have fallen, but I love you, after allFor I’m a devil; I can raise, then raze, than radiate
I am a devil; I bleed black as ichor soaked in hate
I am a devil; I deal in the secret side of pain
Renunciation of salvation, dreamers down the drain.And you’re an angel; you protect and guard all wondrous things
You are an angel; you can rest the wide world on your wings
You are an angel; you give the ineffable a voice
You’re absolutes and absolution; I’m the thrill of choice.Oh, lover, you are swords and crowns, crucifictitious tears,
You’re covenants and convents and ecclesiastic years,
Evangelist, avenger, Jonah in the wailing wall
Pour plagues into the populace and kill the first sons, allYou want to say you love me like all demons love despair
I want to say I love you like all angels love their prayer
Oh lover, I’ll prostrate myself and never cut my hair,
Oh lover, I have loved you since before the stars were thereYou are an angel; you can lead the righteous in attack
I am a devil; I can lead the wretched fighting back,
I live to love you; it cleaves like a comet ’cross my soul
You incarnation of creation I cannot control
Though I cannot he holy, when I’m with you, I am whole.