In the weak of the night I have once again found A way to apathy's arms And this gloom spreads behind me like wings of great bats Bare in front of his late evening charm And I tread upon it as if all was my kingdom To master, the taste of the bite The skies have many stars tonight And each of them is sharp As the pale midnight glow bathes my psyche Your window outcasts me outdoors Your sharp silhouette cut in yellow light As to blind the confetti of ghosts A widowed moan then escaped my lips I could not rule this wondrous art! I poured all my anguish in one silenced wish Be a nightmare in your serene fright I narrowed my eyes to a slit Where her rage was immense to trespass My mortal instincts could sense, but see not As darkness from darkness parts I scorned to her essence, I scorned to her kind I have turned my back to them all For kindness is but the perversion of kings And compassion in their compass foul She has the wild eyes of prey To jewel in black skies The moon herself in her crest! But her eyes bled of acid when I reached out To touch the unknown of her chest The serpent's voluptuous tongue, and his kiss That embedded a frail lament Bewailing the spirits of wayward winters When he lent me his veins and his fate And when all is lost and nothing left in here The swirl of the tide where furies rest shall rise He shall repay thrice for this forsaken falsehood Ban him from the woods, conceal his lying eyes! Open your veins for my heart is opaque And truth has long left us forlorn Man exceeds all beasts; I'll rejoice As the wolves in your fine winter mourn For each man kills the wilderness That lurks in troubled minds The creed of prey, the nameless wind The passion in the tide The deadly need, the phantom crave Of what was once and lost For he had killed and he had lived To disobey his oaths And each man kills and you have too Your lying tongue judged well You killed the beast inside of you Dismissed my mortal cells For each man kills, and each man slays The bleeding hope. And I But this man killed in many ways Yet this man did not die!