Darkly Quill

(Darkly quill)
Nothing comforts darkness more than darkness

Curves,... lines and veins, sepia dreams (dreary-starred)
Inkwell,... flesh and canvas, Gothic avant-garde
A portrait composed, blackness upon the quill

Isn't it too real? (too much reality)
How the profound, chambered confusion can kill
(Deeply) ... not meant to be split second-sated
Beyond an instant, weighted, fated long feel

(Darkly quill)
Nothing comforts darkness more than darkness

Vellum scrolls lay, morose eloquence unfurls
Creeping, note beats blot paper with sable pearls
Melancholia, blackness upon the quill

Isn't it too real? (too much reality)
How the profound, chambered confusion can kill
(Deeply) ... not meant to be split second-sated
Beyond an instant, weighted, fated long feel

(Darkly quill)
Nothing comforts darkness more than darkness

(c) Kay Irvin

... for Edgar Allan Poe
And also for all the Dark/Gothic writers
Of Lyrics, Poetry and Music

Live With This

I wanted to light a candle for you
Instead, for love, I lit two
For your heart's return
For your soul to yearn
As once was
Then I watched the pillars burn
(to darkness)

I waited for you but you let me down
You were somewhere on the town
In the bustling lies
With the hustling eyes
As you wish
And I said quiet goodbyes
(final time)
(unrequited)

Tomorrow will come but I won't be here
It's my turn to disappear
And you can wonder and you can hunger
For what you had,... when it's gone
(feel ... unacknowledged,... settled on)
For what you had,... what you'll miss
(feel ... unsatisfied,... live with this)
Live with this

(c) Kay Irvin