How Like a Winter

The Night, Then Him

How Like a Winter


The mirror watches 
He's hiding 
Yet knows he's everywhere 
A swarm of faithful flies 
That unconditionally love Him 
Like a festering fruit 
He creates the void in his eyes 
Paints Himself by shades of red 
With drops of absinthe 
And laudanum 
In that wretched Sundays 
That fast become violet then black 
Limbs in gangrene in a crippled body 
The guest in the mirror 
Hopes that night would give hIM 
a gleam of nasty pleasure 
in a life so tiresome 
The guest awaits 
his moment for he knows He won't go too far 
Soon He will be back with His prey so young 
And scary, but beautiful like a summer's morning 
The hunger will be satisfied for just a moment 
Alas! he wants more and more and more… 
Crying, He watches 
While he's eating 
No face lives 
No sound tunes 
Forbidden meals that intoxicate more than wine 
A sleepless killer 
and an hopeless sinner 
enslaved by his own beauty 
that now shines once more 
deep in that mirror 
soon thirsty again 
and again…the guest will wait.