Nightfall Bares My Burden

Here I ponder such bitter thoughts and complications

Layeth I shall in haunted sleep

Trust in my instincts

Beware I shall of these appetites

No rest for the wicked soul I keep

A restless mind and dancing eyes

Here I wish to dream of you tonight

Though any dream upon this night shall suffice

Wind ravaged curtains casts

Shadows upon the lifeless walls

Observations from this circumstantial slumber

Unconscious yet wide-eyed, I await the epiphany

Nightfall bares my burden

Here magnified by the chilling moonrise

When light takes leave, why is all undone?

Mistakes are always silent

Though regrets reach us too clearly

Why must my torment breed this fear?

Wallowing in vampyric servitude hour by hour

For it grows more profane

And yet what this superstition hath maintained

A firm hold o'er minds of men tis thy bane

Anchor me to anything, forgive me but I fear I'm drowning

Wheres't thing hear this night?

Allow me to give you some notion of her

Not that first impression, whatever it may have been

But the absolute reality of her

As I gradually learnted to see it

She was, beyond all comparison

The most graceful, and exquisite woman I've ever seen

But with a grace and beauty

That has nothing to do with a preconceived notion

Or previous experience of what goes by these names

It is conceivable, that there once in a thousand years may rise

A combination of lines, a system, a gesture

By which is unprecedented beauty

I remember in the course of that one day

Perhaps I was dreaming

You looked every now and then, as if you'd remark

The crown has fallen from my brow

There was a time she once would swoon at my vehemence

But then she turned away and dropped my hand

I beg this resolution, a vision profound, which frightens thee

Wind ravaged curtains casts

Shadows upon the lifeless walls

Observations from this circumstantial slumber

Unconscious yet wide-eyed, I await the epiphany