no heart can flutter all alone,
nor devils fly in space,
for all the travels of our minds,
are blazing with a trace

no farther dragon's head will fall
beyond the wing of night,
for someone somewhere knows
the light
and fills it with her song

before, before, those blessed words,
it's all the last of all,
for something burns me deep inside
with fire and glowing coal

forged in brilliant heat we sing,
left to die in fire
but no one knows the things we've seen
nor felt the dark desire

"forever and forever"
says the wingless watching eye
and tomorrow will be sooner
than the dying of today

death stretched out like nobody's business
lost in flickering light
dust to dust and ashes to ashes
before the falling of night

"don't go away" she said with a smile
"don't let the light die in me"
and she took me and melted each strand of desire
and left me empty of me

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formless fury, bleeding pain
don't awake this dragon's bane