Beautiful Demons

A bitter death beside you
Is cheapened by my own
More quiet
More intimate
Death all alone

The view from here is grim
Beside the serpents of your game
Your worst revenge
Hit right on target
And these beautiful demons
Know my proper name

A dream built on unsound practices
It’s all so saccharine
It’s all too bleak
Clad in black like death
Fading out again
And these beautiful demons
Who haunt me like a ghost
They’ll get their share I’m sure

I reach for the most
And you exceeded my grasp
By inches
Only inches
Flash fires in the forest
Mud flowing back down the trenches
We fought and lost
There’s no winner here
But winter’s come to bleed again
Get the heart beating again
Pumping that flesh-bent fear
You grow more beautiful
In your absence

And these beautiful demons
Work at me constantly
They’re my only companions since
This dream-eyed innocence
Of true evil that was developing
Your touch makes me weak
In the knees
The dust is now settling
And these beautiful demons
Flowering
Built with powers of malevolence
Find a way to awaken me
And the birds are carrion
Vultures by nature
Picking up a great feast
From the disaster of our communion
To die alone is more mature

She crashed on me like acid rain
Ate me out from the inside
My lover was the still spot
Of the turning world
And these beautiful demons offer me a ride
To the end of the lonely planet
Two years under a black cloud
Five hundred miles on a bad road
I miss you all the more now
I just don’t talk about you out loud