Allow, My Soul!
Some days my Pain I'd like to shrivel The heart is squeezed of its blood by rough twine wrapped round it 200 times over And how I wish this callous and torment on my worst enemy Some days my Tease I give it out and can't remember when to stop Then the line is crossed by one And the heart is broken, mine or his Some days my Mourning Is poured into my dreams crying, Waking, and sleeping is the nightmare in books And I only see through my haze to stop and scream at the moon Some days my Blind Who can see all is not real because the only thing I can understand is sun is up, sky is blue And my solace or anger is for a world of the Blind that surrounds me Some days my Love Spills from my Heart like melted gold Ne'er a bitter word, always the warmest of thoughts And the spine straightens to hear such crystal, adoring words fall from my mouth Some days my Fear So innate, so constant, growing from worry always with me, but I-I can forget it is there And yet again it finds me when Loneliness does Some days my Angst Worse than the artists' anger after the French Revolution Even a whiff of inspiration halts and startles my breath And what needs to be written is a secret lost safely within me Some days my Joy Infected me like paradise in my bones Everyone swears that a hundred smiles were stuffed into my eyes And everything terrible, rusted, or dirty is replaced by Happiness Some days my Cold My mother shies from me The lover finds another to bring along And yet this manner should be to me a foreign road, abandoned long ago for higher ground Some days my Peace Given to me by Heaven, Wind, and Smoke Changing me, being the narcotic it is: I am full to the brim And very soon, I belive I could choke on my own Nirvana For this is all my soul will allow.