This is making less and less sense every time I read it, but I still like it.

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Glaring, grinding needs.

Birdy, birdy, fly away. Journey to where ever you may want to go.

Demon darling lie with me just this one time, and laugh through the winters death.

Can you see this once that I need you to leave? You need to go as much as I need you to. You need not be stuck here with us. You have power and freedom, you command respect. Birdy, live a little bit and jump ship to a better place.

Please just this once darling, show me that you know how to break the truth. Do not go by what he asked of you. Do not do with he asked for you. Take your chain and melt it with that scalding wit I know you possess. You do not belong to him.

Take a train through the country. Take a horse or foot through the rain. Can you write me back if I tell you where I will be? Go to Egypt and Russia and Japan and all the world around until you are back at our tree. And carve the map of the places you have seen into the wood in one motion born of that love for the oceans and lands of all the people you have met.

Sweetheart, let me have your soul. Let me have your blood and taste you. I want to spend the coldest days of Hell with you in front of a roaring fire. Let it devour who you once were, that cannot matter in our perfect frozen paradise with only beauty to coast to Spring on. Let summer come and then fall, watch the leaves turn the colors of that fire as they die back into winter.

Birdy, can you hear me? My sweet sparrow, send me a feather from you travels and let me know that you are the fire I once held in my heart and hands.

Demon, can you love me? Darling devil, trust that I can guide you through the winter blindness into the beauty of my own soul.

Birdy, birdy, give me a sign of land.

Demon, demon, show me love.