Shadow Duet

Voice of the Shadow of Beauty

Voice of the Shadow of Darkness

Stanne

Shadows play

In my wilderness' mindscape

They seek

One spiteful and wicked

One humble and meek

A windswept pale landscape

Of edified thought

Two frictional forces

A triad have brought

Woven

A soft breeze whispers slowly

Within me

In the valley of my mind

The aerial mists sink falling

And its breath both foul and holy

Is like the deer to a dying hind

Slowly traversing the atmosphere

Calling

Wordless, yet in soul so true

Nameless, yet it lives in you

Shapeless like the purity of pain

Lawful when all fear is slain

- One shadow of beauty caressing the flowers

The paleness of winter reflects in her eyes-

Deity of stardom

Enticer of stardoom

So soft and so silent

Maternal - eternal

Serenity fades

Blinded by visions of sunlight nocturnal

With the darkening of skies

One shadow of darkness

A shade of deep hate

A wanderer's spectre with fury ablaze

In sheets of sharp silver

Laid youthful to die

Reborn into vengeance

Dark flames dance in grace

Dark flames dance in grace

In the grace of storms

One shadow of beauty

One shadow of darkness

Sailing free on the sea within my mind

Surging dark oceans

Perpetual waters

Creator of life

And reclaimer of souls

Mother ocean

Watching the deep fjords uneasily moving

Whipping the white waves towards the cold air

Rising like swans in a scarred, sudden motion

A cascade of lost feathers

Adrift on the sea

Hark

A serenade in the tongue of the wind

The sighs of the centuries, so sonorous in the bower

Hovering further athwart a leafy cover

A shelter for those

Whose time's wind make them wither

And therefore they choose to guide

This time-wind hither

Alas, in tune with the tide of time

I was, but I'm not

Nor I'll be with its pride

Yes, aeons have flown

But more is to come

For I know time

But time is not eternal

Their life stars not immortal

A friend that I greet with open arms

Setting souls can never

A brother soul of deadly harm

Pass through the pearly portal

No bliss be given

And joy, nor joy

Flowing down the gates of hell

Fire

I cry for you...

Don't spill your tears for me

But for your kit and kin

My scions of light?

Deprived of the lust and the treasure of pleasure

Which is the fuel for life and glory

Silent your dark desires within entirety's light

Solitude

Sanctity

Sanctuary

Sanctum, sanctum,

Sanctum (tranquility)

Hear me

You who hold the fate of stars in hand

Before creation's eye I stand

My soul set free

In summerland

Mighty the strand of the universe

A chaos void tomb of dead worlds

Hark

What?

Divinity flows in your heart

Cast it alight, the seed of all art

Slowly reborn from a sunless state of mind

Silent, you fool

A cradle of roses

Embedded in stillness and shade

Silent, you fool

Thine words are untrue

Remember Endymion's crestfallen tears

Serene art the gods, yet pain is their way

He touched by the heavens

His hellfire nears

A silent divinity, now see your body of air

Free now your heavenly body of air

Come bathe in the rays of the all-seeing one

Holding the fate of all life in both hands

Breathing life-force

Like gold made from sand

My winged steed of moonlight

Black stallion of thunder

We rode above the greenish earth

And tore the green asunder

But what you left bleeding

Destroyed a soulforsaken world

And your deeds of sharp silver

Decoyed a mindforsaken herd

A duet of shadows

A duet of shadows

A duet of thoughts

A duet of thoughts

Of beings we feed

With the dust of our thoughts

Residing within us

The two-fold wheel of life

Of insight created: a triad of jewel

A thin leaf of the life-tree's truth