"Livid Child With A Golden Fringe" by Jorieke ´JoSav´ Savelkouls

Smitten by unrivaled vexation

Caught in insatiable arms

I am swept away in a roused dance

I close my eyes

And let the shadows take me over

Drifting within inauspicious, bleeding clouds

I'm wrapped up in ebon

Thrown beyond taunting hatred

I remain undaunted

I am unperturbed

Refusing to give in

To this tempting debility

For underneath the wings

I chose to spread in full glory

I refuse to cast an equal shadow

I control the raging fury

I capture the insane laughter

Closed up in a golden box

And thrown in the lap

Of an unmarred virgin

And beneath these faded dreams

These murmured reminisces

Beneath guileless thoughts

I open my eyes

And shed an imperturbable light

Casting neither shadow

Nor dark

I unlock these stifling arms

With gloating disgust

I lead the dance

For the first time in my ill-starred life

Boasting the light

Yet one thing remains

In draped shadows

And perpetual ebon

Impossible to be purified

By a mere golden box

For my ravened soul

Persists and endures

Tainted

For all eternity

'Livid Child With A Golden Fringe' JoSav 2002