Come Out With Me

Come out with me in the shadowtime, Dance together in slow rhythms Sensuality crawling over our flesh As we feed one another On the rich fare of warm dreams Dredged up from the dark To consume ourselves in strong caresses, Our touch afire with tenderness. Become one with me While the stars' splintered light Drifts down to earth untroubled By its crossing of that black and limitless void Be one with me While the bright cold light Falls off the ragged face of the moon Down to this side of the world Calling out the beings of the night To attend to their quiet affairs. Not without some shade of former glories Fell those who stood with Lucifer; As the brightest stars give up their light In cataclysms vast and silent, So passed they below, From light eternal to darkness supreme. Sometimes it stands alike with mortal men, Creatures at once divine and diabolic, We accidents of Fate, Beauteous monstrosities, Mysteries to ourselves. Glories hide within our disgraces, As do dishonors in our victories. We are Creation's Terror We save or destroy With directionless power and minds undisciplined. So come out with me into the shadowtime To mingle formless passions To fill the hungry spaces of our hearts, Raveling in our humanity As we devour desire Mating body to mind Sewing together the shuddering fabric of dreams Beneath the fragile, tenuous light crawling close To the wet ground at the burning edge of the day.