Into Relentless Night
Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
~Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto the one that twisted her heart
to love the vagabond with honeyed tongue,
whose poison turned a joy-filled day
into relentless night.
Curse the lips that gave cruel lies as truth,
words that shuttered starlight in the velvet night,
and caused the dawn to cry
with anguish in love’s ruins.
His every kiss did leave its scar in virgin flesh,
and every promise became a dirge within her soul,
a heart that once beat in rhapsody
now beats in heavy requiem.
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