I'll never wed
That common expectation never met

And mother said
If only I had chosen someone else

In secret smiled
Oh, dearie, it is never quite that dire

You see, I lied
It's you alone, the reason that I hide

Keep the devil on my shoulder
And your wisdom in my ear
Counteract the ignorance
And poisonous refrains

Bend an ear to every rebel
Every sacrilegious mirror
Tally all the benefits
Of every "betters" gain

Did Earth feel slighted
For Her credit due
She turns our lives so carefully
For praises sparse and few

Every body's
Brilliant
Because before
We weren't
And now
We're everything

When snow falls
The world slows
And doesn't shun
The reminisce

Imagine you a bird
That dared to fly the dark
Just to see the sun
Before it's fated spark

Beaten and bruised
My lovely muse

I cried for joy
That wasn't mine
I found the tears
In love sublimed

No need to ******
Came a willing lamb
Snap your unused lures
And paint my empty wool

Black sticky balm
Percussions drum
It's flaming calm

Sweet icy chips
Sharp notes *****
Metallic lit

Red velvet voice
Seductress nice
What relished vice

My chest of ash
And hopeless dreams
In anger burned
In spite of meat

My flaming heart
And heated head
Defiance fed
A sparking wish

It started small
Like filigree

It bound the heart
A slushing sea

A pebble thrown
And contents poured

It filled again
And it was stone

The south is fading
And grasses grey
The thistles pale
All minds they stay

One for wonder
And one for dust
One inspires
The other tires
One is nearer
Yet less dearer
All are timeless
None to stay

I'm in the murky place
Between two warring worlds
Blind to the beauty blurred
By swirling milky words

I see your catacombs
Cemented single minds
Feel crumbling rockiness
As cracks create the ground

Recalled a certain thrill          
At hate for a hypocrisy        
A smirk for sacrilege          

And wonder all along            
It's just the pluck of memory
A thread of this in me            

A narrow path is mine  
In rows of dolls, they string in line
No righteous face in time

Winter's sky
In green July
Quite the con-
trasting delight

Let there be noise
Explosions bled
Great cocophony
Inside my head

Drown the voice
Blissful hush!
Timorous absence
Muffled drums

For fear! It's pause...
Unpresent thoughts
They're rushing back
They crush and clot