Forever Marked

Forever Marked
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You hold my heart in your claws
You make my soul bleed with your gentle lips
You kill me with your pretty eyes...

I have loved you from the moment we met on a hot summer night
When I first laid eyes upon you in that place of noise and travel
And you captured my heart with a glance and a warm shoulder

Your soft lips can betray the determination in my soul to stand firm
Making my soul bleed with want of you alongside me
As they move like Lucifer's breath along my flesh

Your hands are both satin and steel, feather and claw
Seeming to know just how to stroke and play me
Able to so easily tear my heart asunder

Your eyes hold the secrets of my heart and soul
Striking like poisoned blades straight into my being
Knowing full well how to extort it for your purposes

Now with a whisper of hidden pain and desperate longing
I try so hard to let you go as I know you wish me to
But you have enslaved my soul within the cage that is you

Your beautiful eyes can cause such a slow death
And as my flesh aches for your warm touch
I will continue to wither away in my lonely bed

Your demon has ripped me apart upon the altar of you
Methodically poisoning my heart with your sweet venom
Knowingly forever spoiling me for all others...

~Seraphiel

I Need You

I Need You
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I need you...

Does this surprise you, that I
Who barreled through life unconcerned
Who was oblivious of my own safety
Who wanted to stand alone
And fight the things that plagued me
Me, who wanted to make it on my own
Who refused to accept help when offered
Who stubbornly raced myself into danger
Who allowed myself to fall into doom
Who wished to survive my own hurricane
Have faltered in my solitary quest
Does it amaze you so bloody much
That I wish to let someone in
That I am admitting to be in love
Does it amuse you
That I am swallowing all of pride...

That I *need* you...

~Seraphiel

When I'm Not There

When I'm Not There
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I wonder if you think of me when I'm not there
Or do you pretend that I don't exist
Do I live on in your heart
Or out of sight out of mind am I
Am I loved for all that I am
Or do you curse when I wander my own way

If you were to reach a hand to me
And were to take back only air
Would you even notice the difference
Do you think that you would even care
If you were thinking about your desires
Would you even notice if I wasn't there

Have you gotten so accustomed to my presence
That you would never notice if I were gone
Would it bother you if I leave
Would it really not matter to you
If I were no longer by your side
Is it really true you would be just fine
If I walked away in despair

Tell me true
Do I even exist to you when I'm not there?

~Seraphiel