As My Tears Run Red

Feeding I stare off into the moonlight Searching for answers The keys to your heart The visions you provide are just Your dark path so secret So secure Alone, I must find my way With my eyes closed I can feel you enter Your beauty unequalled Across the sea, I hear your call Soft and gentle Piercing the night and my soul I call Reaching out with my mind My heart My soul I am your slave My mind, body, is yours Decisions are made Feelings of desire overwhelm Alone I sleep Staring at the rocking chair that is my heart The unknown Such an attraction My life must lie along a different path Or does it You call out again wanting to feed On my dreams On my desires On my soul My veins are ripe with life With thoughts of you Your beauty Your love Sunrise is near Our embrace delayed My eyes open Alone again

Today the white mist overtook reality Drowning life with chilling darkness The red river ran deep Opening in the center of it all A heart now aches A body cannot feel Yet, the pleasures found in the tainted flesh blossom As the tears of loneliness build Waiting to cascade like a waterfall from barren eyes The heart beckons for warmth For protection from the unnerving storm that rages, still For that sweet caress, that soothes every thought On the inside, it remains whole The dagger only stole the emptiness held within the bounds One soul tasting the breaths of many Longing for freedom from the limits that bind That prey on the thoughts and feelings of men Of women whose depths linger long after decay Where the softness of bodies entwined is a reality Where the passion felt in every kiss may last forever Where forever can be held outside a coffer Eyes wandering through the emptiness of the silk The loneliness felt inside the scarlet shroud Hoping to catch just a glimpse of brightness ...