So long my friend, my lover, my enemy
so long we have held hands and danced around the fire of our youth
Ignorant to the days, the years
lost in the love of our lust, our bodies, our minds

Now the awakening of our dream has come
you reject me you persecute me like Jesus on the cross
I am lost to you, the fire has gone out
I blow and tend to the burning embers
frantically trying to rekindle the passion of years past
with no fuel to add

Like a soulless heretic you cast my body upon the coals
to smother what air is left to feed the flames
Sacrilege!

I die we die
it is the end my love
you let go and run
I watch from my smokey cloud above in shame
and accept the change to come

So long my love

I see you through wounded eyes
eyes my mother gave me, warm and open to receive
wounds you gave me, burning with venom

Your eyes are clear and un-fleeting
yet transforming, green to blue, yellow to gray
un-telling of who you are

I see you through wounded eyes
deep brown like the earth and wet with pain
but true and naive

Like a snake you slither in and out of my eye sockets
wrapping your body around my mind
scraping your scales along the inside of my skull

I see you with blue eyes the best
yellow are my least favorite
like the clouds, gray makes me feel alone
but green with envy
I fear the most

I see you through wounded eyes
and I am helpless to the colorful array
of your arsenal
penetrating
I am wrapped up in your gaze