Roses are whitePainted with bloodSo says the queen of heartShe dictates the productionOf each dyed blossomFormed from the end of lifeThe queen of hearts takes early
I'm danceing to the moonlightAs it drips from the skyMy body it echos with soundThe stars respond to my desperate callReaching out their lightWith each heart beat that poundsCan't you see it's beautyI begin to spinFaster my steps resoundMy dance becomes a frenzied numberMy feet beat to the soundCan't you hear the forests callCan't you hear the wispers sweetBegging me to danceCan't you hear the frenzied callsBegging me to sing
I am drowningThe sea lapses over my headThe current pushes me further downMy legs beat and bate to no availThe icy water rushesIt conforms to my bodyIn the face of the endless seaI am naught but a grain of sandSoon my legs stopAs I succumb to the lashing darknessAs twilight eclipses my visionMy last thought is not of my loved onesBut what shall become of me at my midnight hour
The space of the world is immense, before me and around me;If I turn quickly, I am terrified, feeling space surround me;Like a man in a boat on very clear, deep water, space frightens and confounds me.I see myself isolated in the universe, and wonderWhat effect I can have. My hands wave underThe heavens like specks of dust that are floating asunder.I hold myself up, and feel a big wind blowingMe like a gadfly into the dusk, without my knowingWhither or why or even how I am going.So much there is outside me, so infinitelySmall am I, what matter if minutelyI beat my way, to be lost immediately?
Long vast shapes... cooled and flushed through with darkness....Lidless windowsGlazed with a flashy lusterFrom some little pert cafe chirping up like a sparrow.And down among iron gutsPiled silverThrowing gray spatter of light... pale without heat...Like the pallor of dead bodies.
A Wife -- at daybreak I shall be --Sunrise -- Hast thou a Flag for me?At Midnight, I am but a Maid,How short it takes to make a Bride --Then -- Midnight, I have passed from theeUnto the East, and Victory --Midnight -- Good Night! I hear them call,The Angels bustle in the Hall --Softly my Future climbs the Stair,I fumble at my Childhood's prayerSo soon to be a Child no more --Eternity, I'm coming -- Sire,Savior -- I've seen the face -- before!