Graveyard Coffeehouse

Dark Forest Of My Love

---

Tread carefully
Amongst the trees
Walk the path
Breath in
This world
Of
Passion
Sensuality
Pain
Pleasure
Not wanting
To exhale
Live
Dangerously
This Dark Forest
Is mine
Waiting
In the Night
If you invite
Me in
Take
My gnarled hand
As I walk
With you
Arm in arm
Along
The twisted path
Under branches
Ancient
Like
Limbs uplifted
To the heavens
Crying for mercy
Pleading
To some deity
Perhaps
Some
Have known
Love
And let it
Slip away
Or
Found True Love
Betrayed it
Played
Executioner
On a whim
Like actors
Performing
A pantomime
Frozen in time
Disembodied arms
Form
The canopy
Above us
As we walk
In the Darkness
Towards
The Unknown
Stop
Embrace
I kiss
Your lips
Neck
Running my hands
About your
Trembling body
You moan
Sigh
As we both wonder
Will we ever
Emerge
From this
Dark Forest
Alive
Are we already dead
Going through
The motions
Playing our parts
In a drama
We will repeat
Again and again
As we have
In past lives
I can see it
In your eyes
What do you
See in mine
My sweet?
A dark forest
You say
As you lie
With a smile
Living the dream
One more time
Before
It all
Fades away
A shadow
Within a memory
A dream
Foreclosed upon
Keep the darkness
Of the forest
At bay
The love
I gave
Within
Your heart
Alive
A moment longer
And you
Will never die
My darling
True love
Always rises
Again
In the black
Within
A
Dark
Forest.