Passion consumes all. |
For you I'll sin, for you I'll lie and should I be required to I'd take the sun right from the sky For you I'll maim, for you I'll kill whatever I may have to do but spend that night with you I will For you I'd was my hands in blood I'd tarnish what was innocent bring down the very House of God I'd devour all morality would strangle all the friends I have and calmly drown my family For you I'd burn a thousand times if it would get me my desire and if the Bell of Fate still chimes I'd summon forth the Devil's ire from the darkest heathen heart in Hell and burn myself in blazing fire I'd sell my soul for a night with you beg the Devil if I needed to there's nothing that I would not do; I'd cheat, I'd steal, I'd die for you if there were the faintest chance that I could spend a night with you If I will have to burn in Hell until the end of Time and after then embrace my doom I shall and burn I will forevermore so I can spend a night with you such as you've never seen before But let me spend a night with you and anything you ask I'll do Please let me spend a night with you My heart and mind to you are true if I can spend one night with you this soul of mine will be your due Every oath I ever took Broken and forsaken Selfishly in search of bliss I wander now, purposeless For my soul's been taken ~*~ I wrote this poem some time in 2004, put it online, and promptly forgot about its existence. I found it again recently when looking through some of my older stuff and realised that I actually quite liked it, even in its unpolished form. I've done some rigorous editing to give it some more structure and improve the piece. It's come with a handful of small sacrifices, but on the whole I think it is better in this form than in its first published version. Only the final stanza has not been changed. It doesn't quite fit with the rest of the structure, but I like that it stresses the change in tone a little more. |