Death, Be Proud

Death, be proud

Through cursed-like lips

Melancholy reigns as

Butterflies fly away

My flesh is of a church

Where only the lonely pray

You look like the moon

As you say goodbye

Welcoming home

The cycle of the living

And the dying

In love's resting place

All the friends we've left behind

I shiver in solitude like

A granite tomb

Singing songs in lament

My memories are of you

In sorrow, a broken

And cracked bell

The dark sorcerer weaves a spell

In my blind bed

Infernal, eternal eyes

Never sleep, never dry

A Phoenix rises extinguishing

Itself by fire

Enchanted, enthroned by the Nile

We let you go to the dance of the stars

And the planets

We let you go into the wind's breath

And the hands of the star maker

Am I a lover, a sinner brooding on

The world?

The blind-hearted phantom

Terrified of pain

To pleasure flees

In the mouths of the four oceans

I seek the beyond in the heart of life

The Sphinx unfurls her wings

Eternal and free

I drink from the silent river

And wear the mark of a Queen

You wrap your arms around me

And whisper to me of myself

I can still see you sleeping

Like thunder when it rains

As death comes to meet me

It will lie in your eyes

Where our hearts will once

More sing free of desolation

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