I saw a world tonight,Stars tingling in my brain.Let my fingers burn away,Let me leave this world unstained...I saw a life today,A life made out of hate.No hands lost,Hands made out of clay to degrade.I wish I could see what you see, even if I know it hurts.I wish I could see what I see, even if I know I can't.I wish I could see what she sees, even if I know I shouldn't.I wish I could see what they see, even if it is a slaughterhouse.
Sit down in the cave,Hide as the world cracks.Air full of metal,Noise, we're not coming back.Looking between rocks,For food we could find.Found merely a textureless snake...Nevermind.
Three eyeballs.Three dry walls.Three needles in my brain...Three creatures.Three monsters.Walking through the lane.But only one left to watch,In the deepest darkness of them all.An overseen overseer,Lost his mind, and his body,Now he's watching from beyond.
Jolt of market-carts ;Steady drip of horses' hoofs on hard pavement ;A black sky lacquered over with blueness,And the lights of Battersea BridgePricking pale in the dawn.The beautiful hours are passingAnd still you sleep !Tired heart of my joy.Incurved upon your dreams.Will the day come before you have opened to me ?
One Life of so much Consequence!Yet I -- for it -- would pay --My Soul's entire income --In ceaseless -- salary --One Pearl -- to me -- so signal --That I would instant dive --Although -- I knew -- to take it --Would cost me -- just a life!The Sea is full -- I know it!That -- does not blur my Gem!It burns -- distinct from all the row --Intact -- in Diadem!The life is thick -- I know it!Yet -- not so dense a crowd --But Monarchs -- are perceptible --Far down the dustiest Road!
Come, my Celia, let us proveWhile we may the sports of love;Time will not be ours forever,He at length our good will sever.Spend not then his gifts in vain;Suns that set may rise again,But if once we lose this light,'Tis with us perpetual night.Why should we defer our joys?Fame and rumour are but toys.Cannot we delude the eyesOf a few poor household spies?Or his easier ears beguile,So removed by our wile?'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;But the sweet theft to reveal,