Butcher Me

Goddess, I do confide

I wish to be your God

To be your worshipper and idol

To be your closet friend

~*~

I'd stand beside you

Through war and peace

I'd protect you

Through life and death

~*~

I take this life of mine

And give it to you

Please butcher me with your teeth

Chew me up and swallow me down

Hide me in your heart

Split it apart, take me out

Only to butcher me again

You are my gentle rain

Let my blood become yours

Glows a Candle

I am broken

Yet you piece together my puzzle

A perfect picture made by your hands

You gave this dead man life

I can give only myself, my heart and soul

~*~

Will you take my gifts?

To hold next to your heart

Will you take my love?

And give yours in return

~*~

I forget all past mistakes

And think only of our future

Wanting to make it the stuff of legends

Merlyn and his Nimue

The Dryad and his Bardess

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Out of the darkness

Glows a candle, glows hope

Hope of better days

And better nights

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This is my Y Gwyr Yn Byn

My truth against the world

I need you to be my Nimue

I need you Bardess, to sing a song for me

A song to set spirit free

Burning Rose

Burning rose

Stabs at my heart

Blood runs free

Pain filled emotions

I bleed ecstasy

~*~

Burning rose

Bleeds me true

I hurt through this pleasure

Sacrificing my soul

To a burning rose

~*~

I kiss this rose

So cool to the touch

Melting happiness

Devoted love

To a burning rose

~*~

It is I who set this fire

It is I who was the match

Burning away, I take up the ashes

Cut open my chest

And place the ashes upon my heart

So that the rose and I are never apart

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Burning rose, I love you so

I have your picture in my mind

Right next to my future plans

I want this to never end

Never burn out

And I will always love

You, my burning rose

Wand and Rose

Chalice filled with blood

Crushed rose petals sprinkled in

Slamming it back

Tastes so sweat

~*~

Rose blood warms my soul

Sending shivers of love throughout

You, the cause without doubt

You sing my song

You are my song

~*~

Take up the chalice yourself

Take my blood and oak leaf mead

Have a part of me

Drink the essence of my aura

Smoky emerald mist, you breathe in

~*~

Lava rock, smoky mountaintop

Misty Greenwood, cool crystalline lake

We are the angels in the sky

Let this union never die

Let us instead fly

~*~

Holy blood

Burning rose

Shattered wand, repaired

Entwining together

Wand and rose, one

Perfect Smile

Walking through fire

Banishing evil as it comes

You are a knight in shining armor

You saved me from my darker half

It was you who rid me of the blackened man

~*~

The worm inside

Has given up and died

You caged the worm

Trapped him with your light

You sent it away

Never to return, he is destroyed

~*~

The hurt it caused, forgotten

Instead replaced by your love

By your perfect smile

~*~

Blackened man leaves no scars behind

No reminder he was inside

All that remains of him are a few pages in a book

No longer strong, this weak worm dies

Paralyzed by your eyes

By your perfect smile

~*~

I have been cured of my blight

And now comes the time to rest instead of fight

Rest in your silken arms

Looking into those bottomless eyes

Kissing your perfect smile

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