~* Beyond Antiquity *~

Bittersweet Choice

To entertain her thoughts

a life of loveless sorrow
in interminable gloom more fury then a Sumerian queen

entangled in her skeleton

What have you lost? What have you gained? 

Impeccable taste but at what cost

the spectre of cracked lips;
less beautiful to me

Prior, seraphs golden garden transformed

now transparent thorns

you'll pay your dues in immortality 

Through bridal weakness she chose to fall

and in her despair an ethereal temperament arises

she'll fade into her lovers pillow 

with drowned feathers and clipped wings 

with glazed eyes, stripped of her voice,

of her choice to sing

a black nightingale far beyond a scintillating soul