First Light

For miles across her satin skin, bells rang

Torches sang their siren song of light

Echoing into her black silk sheets

Screams muffled by the distance between them

It's nothing now, the walls have bled their secrets

Dry, and our eyes have teared up for the last time

And maybe we have died of this, maybe it's a lie shared

Between our lips, when the mountains become the avalanche

That buries us in ecstasy, suppresses our empty promises

Until what we are is nothing we have ever been

A union of fire and flesh, a communion of desire and death

Come to take in, break apart these glass oceans

That would deign to hold us back, hold your breath

While the spirit sleeps, lest we wake the demons of the deep

For days swept 'neath her unmade bed, swells crashed

Against stony visages, along the ridges of commitment

To the depths of our regression, the expression of purest heavens

Whose lines behind us grow, with every heart laid low

By the killer in our bones, it's touching how

The fall has fed us dragons, and our skies have cleared the path

To flight, and maybe we grow fat from this

Or maybe we grow wise, for a swallow at her fairy lips draws

Blood from redlined eyes, I taste the river in your thoughts

Each drink keeps me absinthe-minded

And maybe it's a blind man's painting, maybe it's a funeral pyre

For the uninitiated, when the banks are eaten away

By the flow of the day, the rhythm and the sway

Of sex and dissension, where lesser men fade

And get carried away, to their unmarked shallow graves

But all along her sundered skin, the weak are hanged

And I, in the company of the silently strangling

Have not skipped a beat, have always found my feet

I, the unrepentant architect of dreams

Would not let the noose keep me

From the sirens who wish me sleep eternally

But undress themselves so eloquently

A lyrical extension of our ecstasy, to demand a morning's recovery

From the drunk in us, the intoxication of the blood

Beneath flesh magnetic, each breath ascetic

To save our strength for climax, divine and unsurpassed in

Any other moment, we will awaken the goddess

Shake the earth from her slumber

And take all that we have ever wished, that when morning comes

We will be undone, every sensation spent

For first light's introduction, 'fore we chase the sun again

Back across the western horizon.