children sing softly to me
I'm overly in love with your underneaths
sweep me away, make me weep

let your lips drink from mine
come, let us flow over the brim together
sail away with me
lead me into dark waters
a rocky stone,
a guide through this rippling maze

take these white-pale arms of mine
make this embrace an amorous one
soften the blows with a feathering touch,
and love me in the dead of night

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frustrating like a man who is smoother than you
I wander through these corridors
looking for a wing

I can picture you in this setting
between an officer and I
quietly sitting

something tells me you've said this before
when all this originality
turns to ash

I'll give you the benefit
if you'll give me incentive
to leave behind my greatest dues

someday I'll get higher than life itself and all the whimpering willows and giggling nymphs will surround me and perform their water dances as I purify the fallen river with light rays of silver that extend longingly from my fingertips, and the green of the sky will wave a hasty goodbye as the darkness fades into the sun, and the little brown shoes of the musical fairies get lost in the swaying fields of devotion, making a home among other dreams lost or forgotten in the days past, but they feed and flow into this river of mine and serve as nutrition for the rays to align, aligning in purpose and star-dusted as gold.

Madness wrapped itself around me
Like twisted branches on a forest tree.
Wind whistles through leaves on a dark Halloween
as my mind falls through hollow bodies.
Hollow bodies are picking at bark -
Pricking their fingers -
Awakening hummers from gentle unrest.

Leave the madness to me,
And a sacrifice will be made,
To the woman who stayed, and
Death will bind you to me.