Gabrielle

Foul snake despair

Where once you darkened gardens, another coils there

Where twice you sliced all hope from me and left these present scars

All insane love now burns above the weft of incandescent stars

Hilt your dripping fangs that range skywards to rend apart

I might have sang of wings unchained

Long before I locked my heart

For Gabrielle

A fit and perfect stitch of foreign parts

Whose beauty fostered poets, who laugh like silver bells

Thawed your bitter winter from my path

Gabrielle

Foul snake despair

Where once you peddled secrets, another spoils there

With speech that sweetens drowning in deep lagoons of eyes

And legs that begged apologies for lengths that mesmerized

Spare your hissing sentiments

For her fee welts more than thine

Though no malice she weans, just a palace of dreams

Where windswept chambers pine

For Gabrielle

Whose hair-spun onyx is run with gold

Her rouge lips smack of dark blood

Her name in whisper rolls

Forever on my tongue lest her memory dissolve

Gabrielle

Gabrielle

Once crucified I would have died

A thousand more times

Just to feel her breath

On my neck as a fervent lover

To drown her sighs in floods of tears so well refined

And blind from spying her in the arms of others

Gabrielle

Gabrielle

Buried inside, where she's all but mine

Save for those that dine on her, on her perfect carcass

Gabrielle

Gabrielle

Foul snake despair

Where once you wreaked my misery, another toils there

For long lost Gabrielle whose nightly spreading grin

Persists in other faces by whom I'm slowly taken in