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
