For a child

For a child
09.02.2005

Cold night’s embrace
Envelops me here
With nothing but the wind’s
icy lips upon my face
The child wails
I sing him a song
My tired soul fails
To wake at the dawn.

A prince of darkness came to me
But he rode on alone
And still, too blind to see
Kept that seed that he had sown.

How I spurn and I hate
The only man I could love
Delivering by harsh fate
My only pearl, a son
Endless love for this child
Seed of the darkness
How cruel is this, my life
Filled with constant reminders of him.

The child wails
And I sing him a song
My jaded soul fails
To wake at the dawn
I cannot rise
From these tired dreams

I look into my child’s eyes
Innocent and pure as they seem
All they reflect is something darker:
Someone, something…
The darkness, the light,
The splitting inside of me.

Here I draw the curtains to that man
And here, I shall sing another song.