Melpomene - Elend

Beside the shores

Of silver streaming sadness to be

She came to me disguised as Melpomene

Like asphodels winding through the chasms of Heaven

We were passing along the waves of the ocean

And slowly reaching the gates of the Sun

The beams of the night preceding me…

The streams of light preluding you…

The walls were weeping blood

But feverish was our waiting, Love

You once cherished our embrace

That day the horizon was weeping nights

The instants of time were running low

And every shape set like bronze

Reminded me of your name

The shore landscaping your face…

The sea piercing through your eyes…

A sea died with the salt of our tears

As the scale of a pearl preventing her from being an eye for the Sun

I am but death and stain within you

As the foaming quiver of life soiling the surface of ennui

You are the dream in me

Surround me with colours I am longing to see

And shadow that light upon me

Sear me in a sea of snakes