Mirror mirror, ever cold
You give me a sight indeed to behold
An image lost that once was mine
Taken now by slipping time
Mirror mirror, mocking bold
What secrets within do you hold
Another world, another place
Where I was not taken in deep disgrace
Mirror mirror, oh so old
Showing me my past, sullenly told
Darkness dripping from my eyes
I welcome my at last demise
One hundred forests
One thousand names
Sifting through
To find the one to blame
Ever lasting
And never still
Flames climb higher
At the Reaper’s will
Dancing closer
To the pyre
Spinning faster
Ever dire
One hundred forests
One thousand names
Ever questing
To end this shame
Caressing whispers
Frightful screams
Tortured nightmares
Unwelcome dreams
Crying children
Shameful faith
Unending stain
Painful heartbreak
Bloodied symbol
Profaned sign
Untrue words
Unseen why
Covered up
Thrown away
Unfair verdict
Gone astray
Justice gone
Never more
Unwanted touch
Tainted floor
I am anger
I am contempt
I am the one
Who is exempt
I am fury
I am pain
I am the one
You must explain
I am rage
I am fire
I am the one
Who must expire
I am endless
I am doubt
I am the one
You can’t be without
I am you
I am me
I am the one
Who you will be
Burn me
With the power of your light
Burn me
Eliminate the night
Burn me
Into the essence of your soul
Burn me
So I’ll never want to go
Soothe me
You are my everything
Soothe me
My spirit will take wing
Soothe me
I want you in my life
Soothe me
I’ll chase away the strife
Love me
Here forever more
Love me
Open up your door
Love me
Through the laughter and the tears
Love me
Through the shivers and the fears
Hold me
Close to your chest
Hold me
Let our feelings say the rest
Hold me
Deep down inside
Hold me
You’re the reason I’m alive
I have too much hate
To ever love you
But if you asked me
I’d try my best
I’m too broken
To ever fix you
But if you wanted
I’d try anyway
I’m too strange
To ever be normal
But for you
I’d give it a try
My blood is red
Just like yours
Why can’t you see
That I’m human too
Don’t try to change
And don’t change me
You can’t be anyone
But who you are
I wish I could say it
But I’m too strange
And too broken
Filled with too much hate
So instead I change
Change for you
So that maybe
You’ll teach me to love
So I can love myself
Just the way I am
And not need you
To hurt me anymore
And so says we
Behold times three
Sink down to the dirt
Dancing free
Forever be
A stain in the grass
Laughing we
Death to thee
Silence all around you
Circle we
Laughing three
Crying without sound
Stones thrown we
Struck times three
Blood ever falling
Cackle we
Alone is thee
No one left to mourn you
Would I but make the sun rise West
To give you joy and help you rest
And make for you the sweetest wine
If you would say forever mine
And ever on to be true
Never to abandon you
If you would but say forever mine
I would sew a soft blanket from fishing twine
Sweet and onward your caress
I am scarcely at my best
On and on I yearn for you
And forever to be true
Put your head down to rest
Here in this soft blanket nest
And here I will watch over you
Until the morning is born anew
When the sun soars up high
Across the bleak and cloudless sky
To stare down at the meager grass
Shall I then find my rest at last
Or must I wait for the dew
To quench this parched land anew
Before my weary eyes may close
So I may sleep and await the snows
To bathe this stark land in white
And erase the evidence of my plight
Hide me then forever more
Beneath a land of endless snow
Nightmares in stone
I’ll bear you straight home
Into the memories of bliss
And here they will fall
Down in a thrall
Never to speak again
The fire burns well
But it is just a spell
Soon to fade away
Like the light in your eyes
Of which I despise
Close them forever now
These dreams call me higher
Though their message most dire
Showing a land of snow
I call the flames to the pyre
To fill the whole spire
And swallow the traitors whole
This tale never ending
My soul ever rending
For a heart I have none
These bright fires
Of which I aspire
Shall cloak me forever anon
Rambles & Rabble 