Perceiving the Poet
Read between the invisible lines
That give inspiration with lyrical beauty
And blind force with accomplished shape
Hear the devilish laughter
Nursed on the ebony breast of night
Dance around me in chaotic choreography
See the ocean of bitterness
That is drowning my ability
To gather stares from every human face
Stay locked and frozen on each eye
As my outward soul does cry
Divided with but half a heart
Hear the winds dispel the heavens wrath in vain
And the lullabies composed from loss and despair
Feel the tears that fall from my cold dead eyes
Streaming, straying, flying, fading
Taste my horror of knowing who and what I am
And the unique understanding of detached loneliness
Catch glimpses of the terrors in the night
That speak to me with silent hatred
An absent father
An uninvited friend
And another lover's past
Meet the ghosts that haunt my dreams
Rise and vanish in oblivious host
Watch my life as a prisoner condemned to die
Pass through the shadows of a crumbling wall
Reach for me beneath the earth with skeletal hands
And cherish the sacred blood of a poet now forgotten
That give inspiration with lyrical beauty
And blind force with accomplished shape
Hear the devilish laughter
Nursed on the ebony breast of night
Dance around me in chaotic choreography
See the ocean of bitterness
That is drowning my ability
To gather stares from every human face
Stay locked and frozen on each eye
As my outward soul does cry
Divided with but half a heart
Hear the winds dispel the heavens wrath in vain
And the lullabies composed from loss and despair
Feel the tears that fall from my cold dead eyes
Streaming, straying, flying, fading
Taste my horror of knowing who and what I am
And the unique understanding of detached loneliness
Catch glimpses of the terrors in the night
That speak to me with silent hatred
An absent father
An uninvited friend
And another lover's past
Meet the ghosts that haunt my dreams
Rise and vanish in oblivious host
Watch my life as a prisoner condemned to die
Pass through the shadows of a crumbling wall
Reach for me beneath the earth with skeletal hands
And cherish the sacred blood of a poet now forgotten
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