Chalice
							Chalice
							

	Beauty Unadorned
	
Besieged, this wretched mind that knew not destiny embraced
The enchantress who knew not her grand allure
Entwined in short lived bliss but now reciprocally displaced
I have retraced these lengthy steps for dreams demure

The darkest of emotions, in magnitude an entity
Cry out in the bereavement of the sun
The love of death and death of love
The pale ravens blackened dove
All focus on the attributes of one

A gift, incarnate vision
Far removed from man and time
You strode this mortal plateau with such ease
For some the greatest peace will lie
Beyond the conscious line
For some our human cloak is a disease

Hold your scarlet wrists up to the sky
Your beauty unadorned at last is free
And kiss my severed world one last good-bye
The light that shone in you now dies in me

Possibility, it scorned the flaming fire
As apprehension ached with its untimely starkness
Whilst I hid in the shadows, in solitary awe
You were the light on the edge of my darkness
 

	Dawn
	
Dew falls on fields
Watered by strange rivers
Aurora's pallor fills the sky

Autumn tuesday
White and silent
In the shadows ghosts slink away

Gone is the night
Wrought with a thousand fears
Wait for the blue resurrection

Time to awake
Wounded heart
Fragile as the gray skeleton of a leaf


	Holy Water
	
Crown my head with roses dead
Cover me with sorrow
Pale, my face, as death's embrace
Draped in veils of mourning

Fragrant seas of memories
Aching bittersweet
Paint the night in oceans of white
And clothe the sky with tears

Holy water, salt-kissed skin
Holy water, streaks the porcelain
Holy water, silver stain
Holy water, soul's acid rain

Empty eyes enshadowed with lies
He wears his skin like a shroud
Paper thin and hollow within
Lifeless though he lives

Pearls of sadness softly fall
In this graveyard still and silent all
Hope and love lie cold and dead
Holy water christens my black head