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My thoughts drift in conversation with the night

Unseen, I watch that which I cannot bear

Yet that from which I cannot turn away

Her name is sin

Her locks a curtain of blood

She haunts my sleeping and my waking

Though I purpose not to dream nor think of her

The one exists, but I cannot love her

Found, now she is gone

Wanting merged with having

But without keeping

All too brief caress

Driving the stake deep into melancholy heart

She is an undulating serpent enchanting

Smoky coils entrancing

Wrapped about my fingers, my mind, my heart

She haunts the black churches of my mind

Eternal, I endure in agony

Alone, to grieve the loss

So I love her, does it mean so much to me?

As the flame flickers, disappearing

Dreaming conceives insanity

I looked into the eyes of ecstasy

Screaming, biting, breathing hard

Smelling of garlic

And cigarettes

Folded in black silk

Driving the stake deep into melancholy heart

She is a stunning scorpion seducing

Sweet venom consuming

Devouring my will, my spirit, my soul

Nameless

I wished her the gift eternal

Nameless

I would that she would want

Nameless

Alas, I wished in vain

Nameless

And now I cannot say her name aloud