Oh deathly Cassandra, come
For you I have shunned the sun
Rise from your fathomless dream
So we may haunt the lands unseen
To wander twilight arcades
And nocturnal promenades
Take my hand and I will show
Secrets only devils know
Oh my cold Cassandra, come
For their hollow love lies undone
How your obsidian tresses stir me
Razor-spiked like kraken sea
I could gaze forever into your eyes
Serpentine, lambent like fireflies
All at once you stupefy me
Daze and deaden so easily
Oh impish Cassandra, come
Hearken to words once unsung
I have armed 'gainst frivolous light
Flaunt now your eclipsing might
Unleash 'pon my entranced heart
Shadows of your blackened Art:
The evernight of your worldview
The diffidence you eschew
M.M. — Martius-Maius MMX; edited December MMXI
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