Monday, 6 September 2021

Sweet Delirium

by Nick Gisburne



Bite, my love, my young apprentice. Bite!
Saturate your innocence with fear
Breathe the sweet delirium of night
Summoning your demons to appear
Burn, my child, my splendid student. Burn!
Show me how impossible you are
Lure your dreams, your nightmares, to return
Smother them with shadows from your star
Why, my son, my greatest failure? Why?
Yours is not the evil I believed
Cheated by the nature you deny
How was I so easily deceived?
    Death, my love, my child, my torment. Death!
    Curse the day I ever gave you breath