Melting Fire

And again each time
I feel that gaze
I'll know and remember
A tainted sky
The perverse lovers
That graced its walls

I'll know and remember
The way you looked
And then the way
You looked away

Shards of pain
Starburst in my heart
Every time I draw a breath
Shaky like glass figurines in the dark
Eager to play/ To dance
On the brink
Of a world of chaos

A while since you've been gone
Your face lingering/ In the days
We avoid/ Glaring at forbidden
Corners of our world
Tendrils that reach out at night
Covering my thoughts
In a blanket of you

But that's how I know
Walking down a path
Covered in falling snow
That tucks itself in/ Behind
My foot steps
And we're almost at the bridge
Over it even as we speak

And I turn back for one last look
Before I bend down/ And set
My light to inflammable footsteps of snow

I'd walk away
As though trapped
In a slow motion reel
But a light within begins to burn
Catching fire with the rest

Breaking me into a run
Coz I remember and cannot bear
Another minute of the pain
One last time/ the freedom
The freedom to cry
For anything else

Escapism

Judgemental shadows standing by 
Violin strains from hidden alcoves
Velvet curtains and a prince in blue
Spotlight on the centre of the ballroom floor

You take my hand/ Ask me for a dance
Spin me around and pull me in tight
Cup my face in caressing fingers
And whisper in my ear sweet dreams/ Of escape

Into a vision perfected in my mind
Where it's just you and I on the floor
Waltzing to a tune woven with our dreams
And we'll know what we left behind

So take me home tonight
In a carriage on plush seats
White horses running loose
Through the woods with wicked boughs
Crackling/ the night swallowing us up
As we flee our nightmares together

And we'd draw lines together 
In the sand/ And together we'd watch the surf run wild
Let the days grow old around us
Let the sun sink below the sea line

These crazy dreams would dance with me
Starring me and you in the old Wild West
Help me open up a new chapter
To a story ending here tonight

Listen to the wheels turning through the wood
Watching me drop a bauble in the mud
Sleepless nights don't help my case
And all I want is home again

So take me home again tonight
My castle by the lake/ set
Deep within the woods where 
Magic and moonlight come alive
And gentle maidens sing to the stars
On the sea bed/ where evil capers
As spotted fawns/ and distress follows
Always young men in black

Take me home tonight
These dreams are ending
What comes next is anyone's guess
So let's you and I draw our thoughts
Into the stars/ Let the constellations decide
Let the reins slack with the crack of a whip
And maybe these horses will fly us
Some place where it's just you and I

You Won't Be My Knight in Shining Armour

Too many nights now
This recurring dream
Haunting my sleepless thoughts
Breaking me/ As it eats me
Alive from within

Too late I realize
I'd bleed out here alone
To the sound of 
The darkness echoing with 
The silence of hooves that
Aren't galloping to my rescue

Too many times now
I've raised my head
In hope/ Desperate sighs
Lining my window sill
Waiting for you to be
The knight at arms I 
Have always wanted/ The king
You are inside

And too late I realize
This recurring dream
I'd bleed to death out
Here/ In the cold 
And the darkness again
Would echo with the silence
Of hooves that aren't galloping
In the distance/ Coming to my rescue

Too many tears/ this linen soaked
I drop from gloved fingers
A gauntlet, a favor, a wisp of faith
Studded with drops of ruby red
Of royal blood that awaits
Her champion/ These fools in foil
Even as they all a- joust
Even as the horizon darkens
And the day's games are called
To come to a close

Too late I realize
These dreams that haunt
My sleepless thoughts
I'd bleed out here in 
The cold/ All alone
And naught but the silence 
Of absent hooves would 
I hear as even the last 
Sounds fade away 
Leaving me all alone
All alone to take the black

Too many cureless fancies
Have driven me to desperation
Grasping at any straw/ any herb
Any spell/ any thought and any fool
Anything to dispel these whims
Of mine because they're eating
At me/ Eating me alive from within

The Cold Winter, Numb Heart

Snow hearts, soft hearts

Floating on icy fingers

Falling from Cousin Jack's blue scarf

As he leans out/ Over my

Window/ His fingers reaching out.

To promise me a cold heart

He tells me I won't feel no more

And safe I'll be at nights again

I want to let his grip

Into the shadows of my thoughts

To be carried away on the North Wind

A place far away my ventus friends like

To call their own

But she won't take me home/ Oh no

We'd rather visit her sister South

A wind less civil howling

Her rude protests that mussed

My hair and made me smile

And I felt my heart's protest

As it sank into a gale

Vengeance blowing past with fury on its lips

Loath to leave my friends

For the winds they gave me word

To take tea at the palace

Of the Snow Queen's summer.land

Where roses and snow hearts

Grow on crystal bushes made

From deadly silver icicles

And I wonder if she'll keep me there

Place her hand upon my wrist

Piercing with her azure gaze

The fog deep in my heart

Her splintery brittle smile of pride

I wished upon my skin

It's chilling caresses and cruel laugh

To look into my soul

And see the tundra waste

That rages in the mist 

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