Moonlight shakes
as sunset breaks.
The cool wind coats me warmly

The leaves crunch
with each step I take.
A sound so simple
for an evening so sweet.

I return my gaze
as I create my own maze
around the obstacles
that await my path.

I stumble along the way
among colorless flowers astray
from all the havoc
and the bull
and his wrath.

A rose so dark
as the burden in my eyes
and the reflection
I see in the sky.

The clouds have turned over,
with first reaction,
I take cover
Until I realize what
he wants me to find.

Up ahead still water waits.
No bridge,
no cross to the other side.
Just a girl with a face,
a mask of confusion
painted on my lips
and my rosy red cheeks.

But once I fall
upon my eyes
they shine of red too,
but my soul does not
seem to copy.

Such poison disguised
when I look across the way
at a world sparkling
every color but grey.

Pretty people,
tiny dancers,
great fortune lures me in.

And soon enough,
I've let him take over
and make me a
prime example of sin.

I want your gems
I want your beauty
I want your kiss,
your touch,
your fire.

I want it all,
my master,
I want all I desire.

"Come with me then,
Silly Girl,
I command
as you wish."

And just like that
he's got me again
with red eyed Horror's
tantalizing kiss.

I plunge into the water,
it takes me down,
now all I want is bliss.

And soon enough,
I now have found
what truth lies beneath
what's exposed.

Though it doesn't look cold,
it'll soon unfold that to
cross the lake
you must spare your soul.

And once you have
you will find
that as beautiful
as fortune may be,
it is still merely artificial gold.