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Sadness (Coming of Age)

©.Copyright, 1994 Laura Chambers-Wright. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form without explicit written permission from the author.


 
Come my only love, be spiritless with me.
Soulless and unaffectionate, bound to be unfreed.
Your eyes, full of fire, like a wraith that appears,
Always distant, always haunted, never more sincere.
We’ll ignore our illusion until we break it apart.
Until the glass starts to shatter,
Before breaks the heart.

Come with me into a fiction when reality is forlorn,
Elegant and grotesque, those nameless creatures born.
Out of black night, we will prowl night and day,
Until the only means of survival are taken away.
In this rich fiction, where sweetness is lasting,
When the bitterness of envy finds a way of passing.
As we get away I know that we will say,
Coming to you, the oncoming sadness, is only coming of age.

From secret ancients who speak languages of old,
Telling tales of the ages, that shouldn’t be told.
There’s a dream for every reality and much to be missed,
What comes of the others who refuse to exist?
The beauty of temptation is all will be the same,
And you’re always so different, coming of age.
How many times can you bleed and not feel?
When you are leaving forever, yet you are standing still,
Honesty is vicious and you’d better look before you leap.
Because the fatal heart will always swear to leave.
With maturity comes grace, then comes bitterness,
Lost within the ages and the secrets of sadness.