Hoist a sail whene’er you please
Your soul’s repose for a tease
Compassed to your Jezebel
A North Star that will not tell
And dream wide beneath her glare
Sprinkled moon dust in your hair
See the temptress of your fate
A beauty formed from fire hate
Knowing grin on copper skin
Gilded leaf that hides her sin
Mother of the devil’s saints
Clasps your wrists in her restraints
Takes you from your feather bed
Makes you blush a crimson red
Lures you into endless night
Where only dreams offer light
Flying through Diana’s skirt
You glimpse where she cannot hurt
And on through the Milky Way
Somewhere passed where lovers stray
Your temptress leads you down then
A snake snapping flight from wren
To a sea that’s pacified
Fossil of the devil’s pride
You two walk atop the waves
Like pilgrims o’er long dead caves
No stars twinkling in the sky
No light but her red third eye
She looks back at you and smiles
No soul’s rest for untold miles
But I’ll dance for you, she chimes
Salome with wicked rhymes
And dance she does all night long
Laughing embers from a bong
Slowly leads you to a ship
Snaps you red upon your hip
Drops you to the dark man’s pit
Chains you where there is no slit
Wrenching in a den of slaves
Your soul sold with other knaves
The ship a rock on dead sand
Unmoved voyage for the damned
Everlasting trip to hell
Dark eternal casts her spell
Somewhere lost in all despair
A momentary glimpse so fair
She weaves in and out the dark
Your last lover on a lark
Minds you that your bed is near
One eye opened from the clear
Just let go this sordid dream
Dip back into time’s old stream
Let the dead gods haunt heaven
Do not rise from the leaven
Your dreams a dark pathway tread
Best by the God who has bled
So when you are wed to sleep
Ring the moon hand you can keep
Picture silly daffodils
Or girls born of golden gills
Write out poems with no measure
Artless verse is your treasure
Just dream mediocrities
Make clear you’re no Socrates
So fate will leave you alone
Etching life on a tombstone
