The Danish Device

once when my heart was heavy sought refuge in a place where the laughter was strange where there were men of pestilence in their souls but it was a place to call home it was a place that in the cold of night remained warm you might be frightened by the gleam in their steel shod eyes but i know the road they have walked in heavy silence and i know that nothing forgiven is ever regretted stealing away with scraps of their souls at the dinner table of the paupers and pawns at the crowning moment of failure goodnight and goodbye they call out so fondly because a few days from christmas we all look so perfect we all look like we are living in a better place so let these dark eyed men carry away your fears let them wrap you in the stillness and slumber and drift off to sweet dreams