Nepenthe

I smell your misery
You have been marked
Death weaves his black thread
Into your fraying tapestry
I fly towards thee
Over moonlit waves
The mindless sky sings to me
A soughing, ancient melody

When the love inside of you
Has starved and died
In this Stygian darkness
I'll come to be your guide
Before you I appear
At midnight's peak
An oily word you hear
Seductively exuding from my bladed beak
When the warmth has been replaced
With cloying hate
As grief becomes your drug
I open the gate
From the vast Plutonian shore
Into your room
Bringing to you more
Of that which you have chosen to consume

So I
Teach the name of my skeletal emperor
Blot the light with the spread of my wings
Stab from your eyes the last of your happiness
Leave in your mind only rotting things
Breathe in nepenthe, flowing out under you
Drain divinity from your skull
Forget not your torturous suffering
But forget you ever were happy at all

I am commanded by death himself
To stay and hasten your cold demise
Relentlessly
Black-feathered angel of Acheron
Ceaselessly gliding through your dreams
On icy winds

Dependent on your grief
And drunk on guilt
Your sickness like a dagger
Buried to the hilt
In me your secrets
You can confide
Craving the punishment
Which with a word I will provide
Inside this avian form
A cruel will
Unblinking eyes of death
Transfix you still
Each sickly tear you shed
Upon the floor
Will bring your body
Closer to my master's dark, abysmal door

So I
Teach you the name of my skeletal emperor
Blot out the light with the spread of my wings
Stab from your eyes now the last of your happiness
Leaving in your mind only rotting things
Breathe in nepenthe, flowing out under you
Letting divinity drain from your skull
Do not forget your torturous suffering
But forget you ever were happy at all

Death reaches out
Behold his face
Your misery draws you ever nearer to his embrace