My Vitriol

My Vitriol

My life I've lived in words untrue
Always unsure on how to break through
The cruellest layers of pure deceit
Forced me from faith into retreat
From sanctuary to the precipice
Saved only by your haunting kiss

Memories have left an inky smear
And on my cheek a burning tear
The remnant of a lovelorn past
And sweetened looks, ne'er surpassed
Still haunt me in my dreaming mind
Love and pain so intertwined

Rain drifting in a velvet sky
The gods themselves begin to cry
World left ablaze with weeping pain
The music of the night, a sad refrain
Your visage stares from the depths of grief
A lifetime's pain from a meeting brief

An autumn morning, clear and cold
The perfect time for to unfold
My darkest wish in the abyss of night
Before the first bright ray of light
Hope penetrated thickest gloom
I broke into your house, into your room

This place was like my second home
To touch, to feel where your feet do roam
I look around the dusty hall
My mind sick with your enthral
It wanders far and back in time
When life was carefree, love sublime

Yet nothing lasts, time all things kills
And your memory my heart now chills
It stores it in its proper place
Far from Time's vitriolic embrace
Away from a world of hate and rage
I am kept within your enchanting cage

A door creaked open; I pushed myself through
My heart beat faster, apprehension grew
Seated in front of me - perfection at last
The vision of beauty I'd held from the past
Cursed by you a thousand times
What penance paid for age old crimes

I remember your eyes; drilling into mine
Letting me commit a dreamed of crime
It was out of love, he didn't deserve you
He didn't, couldn't, would never know you
My running footsteps echo across the floor
As crimson blood seeps round the door.