Ciara Cybelle

Her winsome smile belied her secret essence
A temptress and siren 
Given to saturnine quintessence

And I a man of placid and calm complexion
Became ever more umbrageous
With each stranger she offered affection

Ciara Cybelle chose to take her chances
Unconcerned by my mood
Continued her frenzied romances

She swooned at my charm
And laughed at my wit
And yet held to another man’s arm

Ciara Cybelle a nymph out of hell
Twisting a man
With her temptress spell

I had to make her understand
She simply had to see
I must be her only man

But Ciara Cybelle laughed instead
Eyes flashing fire
She brazenly said

The likes of me would never know
The deliciousness
Of the charms she would bestow

On other men she found fairer
Then in a rage
I struck in blind error

And carefree Ciara Cybelle
Lay shattered and still
At my feet where she fell

To the dark waters I fed
The alabaster body
Of Ciara Cybelle dead

Now benthic stillness of cimmerian depths 
Disturbed by the pale lifeless limbs
Of Ciara Cybelle

Now tumescent and water pruned
The once sempiternal beauty
Forever ruined
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