Bye Bye Belladonna

Weeks forgotten

In the split second

Of a chanced encounter

With an estranged lover -

Pains forgotten,

And wrongs forgiven;

Just lizard-like lust

For a consummation

Of this reunion.

The lizard yearns

To touch this

Coveted crystalline siren...

!SIRENS!

Police!

                Hospital!

                                     Jail!

                                                Overdose!

But she is so beautiful...

Just one kiss...

Psychosis!

                        Gangsters!

                                                Money!

                                                                  Sex!

Will just one kiss

Awaken Sleeping Beauty?

I hold her face in my hands,

Look deep into those crystal clear eyes,

And like crystal balls,

In them, my future flashes -

The future she desperately tries to hide

With her coy flirtations and lurings.

There, in those crystal eyes,

I see the fiery pits of Hell,

I see the wrath which boils like lava,

And I hear the screaming -

The screaming of pain,

The screaming hallucinations,

The screaming of slavery

With its chains and obeisances,

With its suffocation and suicide.

This angelic demon

Incites fear within my breast,

And yet intrigues me all the same.

But life is not worth losing

For one lustful moment,

So in one swift movement, it's

Bye bye, Belladonna.