In a putrid darkness



i slept



my despairing soul



longed to be one



a fragile voice



beckoning...



calling to me



from the darkness



"is that you?"



i asked the nothing



do you know



that once, long ago



We we're one



but life is a chain



of perpetual breaths



and breath infuses dreaded clay



with unholy life



it corrupts the purity



of something complete



like my soul



that once was our soul



again i hear the voice



i know it is you



all these years



i dreamed of you



this shapeless void



has gained wisdom



to move it's fragile limbs



towards your guiding light



my love



i am coming...

i try to execute the utterance of thy name
but no sound expels from these marbled lips
ancient mercury was not installed within
so i speaketh no words for you to hear
so you can find me

i follow not the darkness, nor the stars
i am simply an automaton
a clockwork heart
movements barely discernable
silently inside
tick, tock, tick, tock
unless you breathe life into me now
i shall forever remain as stone
darkly dreaming inside
but never a part of your world

beside you as a ghost
unable to touch

the hanged empress
longing for the satyr
upon her throne she reflects
upon the gentle heart
pulsating somewhere
in the darkness

sweet mercury expells
from the lovers lips
and a song is revealed

"from neptunes deep, you hail,
o' empress beyond the clouds,
and beneath thine depths,
the prince of the earth lies in wait"

it will enthrall you with a gaze
ensnare you with a touch
and destroy you with a kiss

he lived with so many faces
so many marbled masks
trapped in listless perplexity
they spoke no sorrows
but bore them as jewelry
on perfectly sculpted fingers
they have eyes of stone revealing nothing

evaporated waters
as wraiths they danced
in ghostly apathy
they rapped on doors
and stared through
stained looking-glasses

concerto of passions
breathing soul into clay
divine flames infringed
as demons deep within
his grieving empty castle
where dying stars above
expells secret riddles
no thinking man may see

he sees her in dreams
her veiled porcelain visage
haunts him endlessly

secret mercury burns in my heart
it's silvery flames plucking the strings of my senses
but i will not dissolve this ****** flesh

a thousand forbidden notes
desire to dictate my passions
but reveals only the curvature of your colors

until i no longer understand who we are

gentle faces shrouded by lies
they smile and reach out
but i spit the vilest of bile
into their perfectly sculpted mouths

your devotion to my sickness melts away
and reveals the sublime decay

i love you

but i cannot harness it's power

where are you my love
lost in darkest night
how brave are you my love
without your inner light

you are disfigured by cruel poetry
in perfect metric form
i read about the world's pain
on your eyes
and on your skin

i live there
in your frozen heart
a lover of shadows
an arabian nightmare
we can never share

his cthonic figurations
illuminated by mortal eyes
if mercurial dreams bestowed form
in a forgotten kingdom

fragile lungs gently invite
Prometheus' sacred fire
the man of clay breathes
and flames ignite
his heart of chaos

wandering beneath merciless stars
never have they adorned his precious head
with their benevolent light
a confused and apathetic withering life

being human, de declames
to have love pierce one's heart
to be enveloped by flames
and tormented by kisses
makes this little heart burn