Dancing on a precipice of perpetual twilight
Courting demons, waltzing with darkness
Each cry smothered in cloying emptiness
A tortured soul displayed in a rusty gibbet
Face twisted in a gargoyle’s grimace
Joyfully piercing voodoo dolls in self likeness
Despair my prophet, hate my soulmate
As the gods turned away in shame
Unable to weep for this fallen one
Then you
What cruel conspiracy dared offer you to me
Stepping barefoot, fearless, amid my shattered being
A hint of fantasy in a vivid nightmare
Dull light playing on the edge of shadow
Stepping without fear into my endless death
Allowing my love to swallow you
You offered me life, and I stole yours
I loved, but my goodness was myth
I murdered you as you smiled
You chose blindness to avoid evil’s gaze
I gave my soul to you, all damaged goods
What gift could I ever be for you?
No phoenix rising, merely Icarus
Crashing to the blackened earth
With a china doll in my wizened hands
Oh, why did you have to love me
When your only reward was my easy cruelty
Why was I so weak, so frail
That I could not protect you from me?
I should have chased you from my door
Yet I selfishly beckoned you in
Should have held your eyes open
But let you sleep in my claws
You dared face the spider in the heart of his web
Tasted his poison and, in paralysis, lingered
And now begins your slow demise
Last breaths escaping in a gasp of silk
Why did you dive into this chasm
So freely heeding the banshees’ cry
You, my salvation, my love, my life
The dream I was never meant to have?
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