A Dance with Death                                                                                                                                            Erik Soto

 

Cloak of nightmares,

Mother of all darkness,

Dwindling into the fears of guilt-ridden sinners.

Into the dreams of those who ache misery

With every movement of the bones.

You play with my mind at the mist of midnight,

To remind me of the times where I enjoyed

Dancing with your temptation.

With the idea of rendering my life

To be one with the shadows.

To be apart of the hazy, dark horizon

Falling with the cold whispering of the night.

You wanted me to trade my pain

For a waltz with you,

For a kiss with you,

For an infinite life

In the chambers of soft spoken gloom,

Sung in a sorrowed lullaby.

You wanted to stop my cries

With one premature goodbye,

But I couldn’t

I didn’t

I was too weak to even hold a dance with you

Too broken to fall in love with your gloom.

So I trade my dance

For another chance to get back up into the light. Lover of all ends,

Mistress of hollow pain,

You come into my thoughts

To remind me that our romance,

Is a promise of my delirious fate.