Evanescent like the scent of decay
  I was fading from the race
  When, in despair, my darkest days
  Ran amok and forged Her face
  From the fairest of handmaidens wraith
  
  Nymphetamine
  
  Heaving midst narcissus
  On a maledict blanket of stars
  She was all three wishes
  Sex, sex, sex
  
  A lover hung on Her deathrow
  I was hooked on Her disease
  Highly strung like Cupid's bow
  Whose arrows hungered meat
  And the blinding flare of passion
  In the shades of narrow streets
  Where their poison never rationed
  All the tips they left in me
  
  Two tracks
  Bric-a-brac
  Something passed between us
  Like a bad crack
  Upward-lit
  I'd met another kind
  
  Of rat
  In fact
  With every Rome inside me
  Licked and ransacked…
  She haunted at the corners of my mind
  
  In black
  Cataracts
  Wouldn't whitewash away
  Her filthy smoke stack
  She burnt me like a furnace
  For my future suicide
  
  Lead to the river
  Midsummer, I waved
  A V of black swans
  On with hope to the grave
  And through Red September
  With skies fire-paved
  I begged you appear
  Like a thorn for the holy ones
  
  Cold was my soul
  Untold was the pain
  I faced when you left me
  A rose in the rain…
  So I swore to the razor
  That never, enchained
  Would your dark nails of faith
  Be pushed through my veins again
  
  Bared on your tomb
  I am a prayer for your loneliness
  And would you ever soon
  Come above unto me?
  For once upon a time
  From the binds of your lowliness
  I could always find
  The rights slot for your sacred key…
  
  Six feet deep is the incision
  In my heart, that barless prison
  Discolours all with tunnel vision
  Sunsetter…
  Nymphetamine
  
  Sick and weak from my condition
  This lust, this vampyric addiction
  To Her alone in full submission
  None better…
  Nymphetamine
  
  
  Wracked with your charm
  I am circled like prey
  Back in the forest
  Where whispers persuade
  More sugar trails
  More with lady laid
  Than pillars of salt…
  (Keeping Sodom at night at bay)
  
  Fold to my arms
  Hold their mesmeric sway
  And dance out to the moon
  As we did in those golden days
  
  Christening stars
  I remember the way
  We were needle and spoon
  Mislaid in the burning hay
  
  Bared on your tomb
  I am a prayer for your loneliness
  And would you ever soon
  Come above unto me?
  For once upon a time
  From the bind of your lowliness
  I could always find
  The rights slot for your sacred key…
  
  Six feet deep is the incision
  In my heart, that barless prison
  Discolours all with tunnel vision
  Sunsetter…
  Nymphetamine
  Sick and weak from my condition
  This lust, this vampyric addiction
  To Her alone in full submission
  None better…
  Nymphetamine