Chalice

Beauty Unadorned

Chalice


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