Through a Tangle of Shadows
Through a tangle of shadows
I would watch and I would wait
Her silence first seduced me
Then served merely to castrate
With tongue placed firmly in her cheek
She burnt her candles black and cream
With no purpose but to feign obscenities
To control, confound and confuse
Then before she left
She made me kneel and bow and kiss
The yellow tinge
Around the edges of her bruise