• meet me where the cranes stutter melodies
    and ripples burst out beneath their feet,
    cooling in cascades of water.
    where the wind sings and the willow weeps,
    like a page ripped out of a fairytale book.
    I'll wait even when my hands go numb -
    frostbite claiming stakes on my skin.
    blood red, midnight black...
    hands turning blue, like a mislead rainbow.

    I've got a conspiracy in my head
    about this sugar-coated nightmare.

    did you feel that? the exhilaration - a sliver of
    cold ripping right through me, endlessly
    vandalizing my mind with thoughts
    turned numb. salvation's slipping.
    I'm falling into the lake of tears, since
    turned red - tainted by our sins.

    you remind me of those supposed artists,
    vandalizing a street - an apparent masterpiece.

    here you are lover, sighing like a furnace,
    apparently content in this one-way relationship.
    all I remember, before our romance wilted,
    was myself trying to make a rose out of a petal.

    then, you materialize in front of me -
    an angel amidst a bloodied battlefield.
    arms outstretched; tears pooled in your hands.
    drip, drip, drip.

    lust takes over, the cranes stop singing.
    heads turn, eyes downcast.
    silent judgment begins it's attack.
    imprints of their coal eyes along my back.
    my mind's plagued with ugly fantasies
    in my imagination, stained
    blood red, midnight black...

    you held a bloodied sword in your hand,
    I saw you smile, a grimace upside-down.