MANON
You're buried in the coils of a telling hurricane
Like the heavy weight of death, you sing the weight of pain
Yet death is not your aim, only fire in your veins
You simply cannot wait
So you scream you scream your name
For love, unreturned, is pain none the same
The warm liquid of your eyes, it leaks out as poison pleas
They burn like wandered stars, like comets toward the seas
Pushing through the skies, trembling with your lips
They splash down, blazing in the night, like hail upon all ships
Sinking down on me, scorching through my skin
Drowning me with purpose
With vision
A wreckage of ambition
There is no happy ending, no wish at our behest
Our dreamer dies alone as the opera leaves her breath
And with her lonely death, the wind deserts my chest
The scene goes dim from sight
The curtain comes to rest
Yet shadowed in its folds, is found a newborn quest
Saddened and golden
Buried
Emboldened
By the opposite of death