~ Lycian Wolfe's Official Poetry Thread ~

[Miss Murder]

Guess what? ... that's right, Revival. More poems. Yay.

Wrote these a few weeks or so ago ... my personal favorite would have to be the first one. ( Phantoms )

~ “Phantoms” ~
(( Written at the request of one of my best friends, Evan, and myself ))

Phantoms of the mind
Phantoms of the heart
As you murder my thoughts, be kind
Mercy comes to just a part
of those who sit upon fading rainbows.

Phantoms of a dark coast
Phantoms of all memories
I lost the one who mattered most
But can you bring him back to me?
Maybe if I come to him.

Phantoms of the dead
Phantoms of the lost
My heart has become hard as lead
And now my love comes back, at a great cost
As, because of me, he falls from grace.

Phantoms of forever
Phantoms of nevermore
Now a raven sits beside me, but never
have I seen such a dead core
As my love who returned to me, in loving misery.

Phantoms of Heaven
Phantoms of Paradise
And now a clock chimes seven
And I return with him without avalice
We rise together, now and forever
And we leave the Phantoms behind.

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~ “Lost” ~
(( Written when I broke up with my now-ex, Aaron. ))

Lost in a sea of shadows,
Close your eyes and see the hallows

Carried out by the fateful tide
See the Angelic Demon; you try to hide.

You gave up on love,
Gave your emotion to a single black dove.

But you see now how wrong it was,
To lose what mattered most, because,

I followed you into the neverending dark,
Saved you from the sea of shadows, to mark

Only to find I wasn’t close to your heart
You gave up on your hopes, and tore us apart.

Now as I rise up, you try to keep me, but fail
And you wish you hadn’t been lost, wished to sail.

You wish you hadn’t lost your emotion and love,
That you hadn’t given me to that single black dove.

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~ “ Behind a Mask” ~
(( Written for one of my best friends, Lacey ))

Hiding behind a mask
A mask of shadows and pain
Freeing yourself is - the task
and the hardship is staying sane.

I can no longer stay with you
and your mask of the abyss
Keeping yourself is - too new
the hardship is to no longer miss.

The red, silver, and black
Reflected in the mask’s eye
Moving on is - the lack
there is no hardship, so sigh.

These tasks and hardships were given
to you to free you from the mask, and
I will watch so you’ll no longer live in
the shadows, so make your stand.

You make the stand, and finally fly
Never to fall again, no longer a task
The hardships are over, and I see in your eye
You’re never to hide again behind a mask.
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~ “Hidden”~
(( Written for my BF, Brad ))

Hidden in the abyss of my mind,
I escape to feel again and find,
You, never to return, never to see
But you see that you have lost me.

You escape into the abyss,
Into the shadows, and I miss
Who you used to be.
Though now, I only have memories to see.

I can’t redeem, but I will try
To save you from yourself, help you fly,
I need to again see your face,
And so, I will break your fall from grace.

Our love will be eternal in this endless night
And no longer will you hide from light
Though those around us feel nothing,
We will hear, see, feel everything.

But when the snow turns grey
And all around us turns to ash, it may
When our world crumbles to the ground
And Death comes to our door, comes around

I will stay with you in the shade
Amidst this endless Masquerade
With our love, we will stay together,
And our love will rain forever.

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