I’m dark-shadowed,

My beloved,

Knowing I love you, wondering if I should,

Hoping silently you’d save me if you would.

I cannot arise again, a phoenix in flames;

I have bowed myself down to the infinite pain

I have rested my soul at your commanding feet;

Burning, I am drifting into the wind as we slowly speak.

Fluttering ‘round your candle-flickered-flame

I was caught and bound and somehow tamed

And most wholly has your supremacy devoured me

Consuming the gift of the wings you once handed me

Fire without mercy, and I have fallen into your brilliance;

Darker than darkness in ashes, the night at your feet –

Once my body, heart, and soul – now shedding gloomy luminance

Over the verity of my frailty, my nothingness.

Questioning the sudden, hateful truth

That you have indeed become my fatality

Forcing the hand of unforgiving fate

And painfully true reality.