As The Shadows Dance

My eyes hold the eventide, -- albeit behind the eyes thou hast

thro' which I 'hold naught else -- a flame enshroudéd in itsblackness;

but the raven; -- burning without the faintest breeze.

sleep my dearest ones - -- teach me, dearest, the reasonwherefore

mind not the palling velvet darkness -- thou by such angst mark'dart?!

wherefore is here loneliness?;

infinite hollowness

in which my thoughts echo,

to the shadows i whisper -

with the shadows i waltz -

bear me; i am not the plague,

altho' nightclad death ... mayhap?!

dare not naysaying my grant; -- dance no longer with theshadows,

vanish with me abaft the unlight! - -- dance no longer with thedead in the graveyard;

o! the taste on thine lips; -- dance with me the mephistowaltz.

a trickling deep red love - -- wedlock 'twixt day and night -

everlasting lightheartédness - -- offer me relief fro thesunrays.

a kiss for thee my dear.

ah! such delight i sense: -- eternally and ne'erendingly;

savour the bitter grapes of life! -- a soulsister of thine iam.

-- let me openly greet thy kiss;

-- the most loving and caring bites.

grant me thineself!,

i bore the woe in my heart,

my heart was shatter'd into its tithe, -- as i depart embraceme,

save yet are its chambers in flood. -- and in paltry time will ire-awake -

-- i love thee.