Whisper to me not of “Forever”

Lest some dark shadow us find

In the sweet stricken wail of longing,

And the night us torturous bind

In giving flight to pleasure overthrown

Before agony beyond mortal mind.

What is it, that you are lurking inside me

And strengthening your hold by pain?

What causes the beauty around us

To be struck by madness, and yet still sane?

Inside the silence of my screams unvoiced

And the tragedy-romance of guilty past

The hollows o’erflowing of my blood,

You’ve conquered me at the last;

So sink inside me, love, tooth and fang –

Break the short cycle of my human existence

Be drunk with the nourishment of my youth

And quickened by night’s insistence;

For should daylight touch perfect skin,

Would skin be perfect no more –

So fill me, love, with perfection,

And stay, forevermore…

For the shadows of night surround us

And my weakened, bloodless state subsides;

Let us hunt our pleasure together

From death of day ‘til morning-tide;

Fill my heart, love, that “Soon” may never end –

Command the night, succumb to day

That my torment cease to now exist;

Kill my soul, and keep the morn at bay.

Strike my mind with madness, and linger;

Desert me not now, seducer of the night

Hold, chain me with bonds of your love

Bar my tomb, scatter still of lusting daylight

Turn inward, unto yourself, and see

What I have now become of you;

Smile, and sink inside me, love, tooth and fang -

Bleed me of that which I have not,yet do;

Anguish in torn shreds speaks feebly

Look us toward the bat-shadowed sky

And sick sweetness cries night unto night

Cursed by death into life we cannot but too, fly.