Love Song

For my best friend

Rock and bone, blood and stone,

Ancient eyes have always known

The darkest depths still to be shown,

Hiding in the shadows.

Shiny bright and sharp the blade

That this forge has freshly made.

For who would want these scars to fade

When they mark us out as heroes?

We who wander other ways,

Who look with an unflinching gaze

Into the dark heart of the maze,

Are not afraid of shadows.

Death, despair and foul disease.

These are the truths on which we seize,

For tho they bring us to our knees

We’re not yet at the gallows.

While I know that I may find

The strongest ties with which to bind

The joy that is a true like mind

Then I shall be your shadow.