Shadow Duet
\Voice of the Shadow of Beauty\/Voice of the Shadow of Darkness/
\shadows playin my wilderness' mindscape they seek\/one spiteful and wickedone humble and meek/
\a windswept pale landscapeof edified thought\/two frictional forcesa 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 holyis like the deer to a dying hind/\slowly traversing the atmosphere calling\
/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 flowersthe 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 darknessa shade of deep hatea wanderer's spectre with fury ablazein sheets of sharp silverlaid youthful to diereborn into vengeancedark flames dance in grace
dark flames dance in gracein the grace of storms/
\one shadow of beauty\/one shadow of darkness/\sailing free on the sea within my mind\
\surging dark oceansperpetual waterscreator of lifeand 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 feathersadrift on the sea/
\hark\/a serenade in the tongue of the wind/
\the sighs of the centuries, so sonorous in the bowerhovering further athwart a leafy cover\/a shelter for those whose time's wind make them witherand therefore they choose to guide this time-wind hither
alas, in tune with the tide of timei was, but I'm notnor I'll be with its pride
yes, aeons have flownbut more is to comefor I know time//a friend that I greet with open arms/a brotherhood of deadly harm and joy\but time is not eternal, their life stars not immortal\\setting souls can neverpass through the pearly portal\\no bliss be given\\nor joy\
/flowing down the gates of hell fire/\i cry for you...\/don't spill your tears for mebut for your kit and kin/\my scions of light?\/deprived of the lust and the treasure of pleasurewhich is the fuel for life and glory/
\silent your dark desires within entirety's light\
-solitudesanctitysanctuarysanctum, sanctum,sanctum (tranquility)
\hear me/you who hold the fate of stars in handbefore creation's eye I standmy soul set free/\in summerland\
\mighty the strand of the universe\/a chaos void tomb of dead worlds/\hark\/what?/\divinity flows in your heartcast it alight, the seed of all artslowly reborn from a sunless state of mind\/silent, you fool/\a cradle of rosesembedded in stillness and shade\
/silent, you foolthine words are untrueremember Endymion's crestfallen tearsSerene art the gods, yet pain is their wayhe touched by the heavenshis 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 oneholding the fate of all life in both handsbreathing life-forcelike gold made from sand\
/my winged steed of moonlightblack stallion of thunderwe rode above the greenish earthand tore the green asunder/\but what you left bleedingdestroyed a soulforsaken worldand your deeds of sharp silverdecoyed a mindforsaken herd\
\a duet of shadows\a duet of shadows\a duet of thoughts\a duet of thoughts\of beings we feedwith the dust of our thoughtsresiding within usthe two-fold wheel of lifeof insight created: a triad of jewels\
a thin leaf of the life-tree's truth