Antonia Nasi

She walks the streets of the French Quarter...
striking at 3am
They named her Melinda, in this...
her immortal life
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There's a happy place I go at night,
In mind and heart, devoid of fright.

Surrounded by this dreamt-up place,
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I cry out to Lord Byron nightly,
And he comes to me between the realm of fantasy and reality.

He speaks through darkness and whispers of ethereal pain
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Seduction personified with one look...
Her ivory skin a sheath of silk
Eyes of wanted coal watching with calculated temptation
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Tick tock…
Tick tock…
That’s all she hears of the faint clock
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The wizard he waits with wand in his hand,
He's waited for ages to conquer this land

Secluded, he dwells, no friend and no mate...
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Manny the Mime lurks 'round Central Park,
Waiting for joggers who run after dark.

He draws on a smile,
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Twice upon a town named Eerie,
The children stalk the Woods O' Dreary

Pale and white as zombies they roam,
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Under blackened sky and quiet space you approached...
my logic slipping away
As boundaries crashed, lines crossed...
hands inches away from each other's bodies
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Breathless,
Waiting for the sun to rise after you've gone

Dreamless,
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A million kisses showered on
His blonde and tousled head

The angels sang when he was born,
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Once daylight breaks I'm locked inside,
The crumbling walls of my hellish mind

No thoughts much different than before,
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My life I did not choose,
My death I shall not make...
though it has crossed the darkest shadows of mind, time and again
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My first smile brought her joy,
My first tear,
and she cried as if it were her own
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Innocence lost in this age of complication,
It's now high time that I take some action

Against the hell that rages inside,
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Through age and youth, you are mine
Through beauty and deterioration,
I love you
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I love you, as you stand before me...
with your faults and your pleasures

I love you, as you lie beside me
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I'm enamored by you...
so young and so cool
Thoughts fresh and exciting,
your body intensely inviting
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Sadistic sadness soils my soul,
No more facades; can't play this 'ole role

Sadistic rage I wear on my sleeve,
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30 white little pills,
Wrapped in a big orange bottle

30 white little pills,
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