Forsaken

Through the fence of barbed wire
I saw the longing eyes of desire
Like a blazing hail of fire
On to this cold world of ire

At a distant haven I stayed hidden
With a heart captured by what’s forbidden
Vicious serpents of vengeance in me beaten
With a sacred touch of seraph in lost heaven

Forgotten was my strengthened conviction
At every step, towards her, I took in affliction
When I held that gaze once more in affection
Stuttered I, every word fell short of diction

Amid the stench of blood, I still caught her scented whiff
Enchained by endless dreams that were merely her motif
At every fall of night, I ached to see for a moment so brief,
The saving face of my soul, and my heart’s ruthless thief

Caught by a moment of weakness
We were in hidden safeness
Against my ivory cream her skin’s dusky beamed
On her fear adorned face, then a smile of understanding gleamed

Where failed a thousand swords,
Those eyes were enough to kill
With voice that stroke heart’s chords
Drowned me in sweetened thrill

Her heartbeats against my chest
Or was it my heart in her rest?
How could I learn to hate
Oh, what a witty game of fate?!

Waited each day in clandestine
For a glimpse of enemy mine
In a house of wood and loam
My heaven, my home away from home

On her accustomed path, I set careful eyes
They lingered there unclosed, nightfall till sunrise
A ghastly thought across my mind,
When she never returned, ran I then to find

A different world which in shadows ruined
There lay her, lifeless and bludgeoned
Held her face that from veil exposed
I stared at eyes that to me forever closed

Sun rose again, and with it all back to life
But was driven within me a poisoned knife
Streets and bazaars again alive with sound
But my heart yearned like a thirsty hound

Days crept in her memory, merely a life in hell
Until a call to retreat and from it all farewell
Here stands an empty man, who now to home sets sail
Taking back just memories, of a star-crossed tale