Tears fall as diamonds to dark earth
Rusted ground where I was found
And from which I was made
The slave of self saved
By a touch
And the kissing embrace of a lover taken and given
Madness driven
To the shallow sorrows of tomorrow's hasty dawning
Spawning hopes
That crackle in the fires of want as embers
Faintly remembered
Each as the next, the same
No glory, no fame to be had
Yet we were glad!
In the moment of atonment
That moment of sin among women and men
Where hunger feeds desire
Feeds hunger
Feeds want
Ravenous need seeds the garden of greedy thoughts
And all for naught when the night is through
There is only me
There is only you
Our union desolved by time always moving
The unforgiving criminal
That robs us of what may be
Leaving beautiful memories and emptiness
Awaiting the new night
The next dance
And our chance to love again.
Apr 30, 2012
Apr 30, 2012 at 12:47 AM UTC
Tears fall as diamonds to dark earth
Rusted ground where I was found
And from which I was made
The slave of self saved
By a touch
And the kissing embrace of a lover taken and given
Madness driven
To the shallow sorrows of tomorrow's hasty dawning
Spawning hopes
That crackle in the fires of want as embers
Faintly remembered
Each as the next, the same
No glory, no fame to be had
Yet we were glad!
In the moment of atonment
That moment of sin among women and men
Where hunger feeds desire
Feeds hunger
Feeds want
Ravenous need seeds the garden of greedy thoughts
And all for naught when the night is through
There is only me
There is only you
Our union desolved by time always moving
The unforgiving criminal
That robs us of what may be
Leaving beautiful memories and emptiness
Awaiting the new night
The next dance
And our chance to love again.
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