A sickness of the heart Ravages the land Kissed by the curse Selfless, helpless Calling men to war Eros at arms A rose for the sword To bleed is to love Heed the archer The thorax usurper Minds flee the cage As she takes the stage The rapture Her quiver brings The furious rape Of my heartstrings Night tides of Jejunity Grappling at shores of fidelity The brazen sun of humility Blinds us, guides us The cosmic pulse doth race As fools keepeth the pace And every fear will burn Upon the pyre of fates learned Lovers in sweet tyranny Endureth their torments willingly Blooms in a desert The victims of chance Mirage voyeurs Trapped in an hourglass Smite me down, keen archer For the end I have wed Lay me aside the brave Reckless, envious dead