A mask betrays with phony facade: As I swagger down life's promenade In a delicate, dandy, dope disguise; Trajectories of a life bequeath Sea of vicissitudes beneath Which sweet serenity, yet violence, lie
'My friend, you look well, I admire that face So bravely smiling against fall from grace When devil crept on you by stealth with blades And that you are redeemed from hell It's visions and fires that **** the soul For you, one of the angel renegades.'
And so I nod and smile in coy consent And sing not the true tale of my lament About the time the beast be strong and fierce; Has my perspective changed since then? For sorrows still seep from my pen My pain imperishable, an eternal year
I paint a smile and wear it like a crown While underneath despair, horror is grown Which contradicts the drastic dance Of happiness I dare to feign To quell the melancholy refrain That sings of time of spells, a fugue, trance
Now, Love, you are my life, as it is now Would have me in a recurring bow Celebration for an enormous sun Inside your great and golden chest Hides the sunshine in your breast Comet which blast and killed Lord Saturn's fun
So soar: in stratospheres and vast beyond The sight of sparks as to heaven you abscond I follow, traversing valleys, fathoming stars The candles clap, angels herald you As through an apocalypse you flew and flew Gathering steam, as light touch wounds of wars
But for all the fury and the force of you Your manifesto of love, superior virtue My sky is toppled still But as I on River Styx am sent A little sully to my lament To see comet strike Saturn, a dying thrill