Diadem

Leaden your face white, contessa
And adjust your black crapes
And wear your mourning like a sparkling diadem
Encrusted in dark memories
Faceted and Precious

Holding court behind beveled glass
The ceremony begins
Unapproachable upon the Dias
Untouchable lest you shatter
Like brittle jet

Lachrymal visage crystallizing
Veins of quartz laced through marble
Glittering in the dark
Eyes fractured like Black Opals
Clouded with fire sputtering out

Watch the courtiers swooning, spinning
Passion, pomp and vanity
What grace and ease
They touch without hesitation
Mingle without walls

Clutch your casket
Guard your finest treasures
Visions and obsessions
Set in onyx and black amber
You are a glided ghost among them

Drink your envy out of cut glass
Regrets trickled over crystal sugar
Poison pearls dissolved in Chartreuse
A bittersweet elixir
To catch in the throat

Absolution comes like honey on a knife blade
The sweetest cut would be deep and golden
All these riches locked inside her,
She wonders
Oh how would the court react
If she spilled her rubies onto the floor



3/2011