YOU


from the ABC set Gothic Poems

YOU

I seek in vain to make a song for you.

My feelings are so deep, my love, my longing too.

Bewitching agony .Oh ! It's so fierce to tame!

Sharp ache throbs in my heart. The fascinating shame :

I tremble like a flower, whispering your name.

The poison of your bites, dissolving in my youth.

Your lethal tooth, my breast ,discovering the truth.

This passion gnaws my soul; this grief haunts all my aches.

Oh, let me die!...Who knows the time it's going to take

to heal my wounds... The scars, my iron shell to break.

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