XIXBANISHMENT
Could you but walk but always you must fly;
I am so weary of your tireless wings.
Why must you make me perfect with a lie?
I am so hungry for imperfect things.
I am so weary of your tireless wings.
Why must you make me perfect with a lie?
I am so hungry for imperfect things.
Why should I be this phantom of desire
Planted amidst the glitter of the stars?
I crave the smoky flicker of a fire,
And some small battle with its pride of scars.
Planted amidst the glitter of the stars?
I crave the smoky flicker of a fire,
And some small battle with its pride of scars.
You have condemned me to these unsought skies,
You who can worship but who cannot love,
Whose icy vision turns unseeing eyes
On all the mysteries that life can prove.
You who can worship but who cannot love,
Whose icy vision turns unseeing eyes
On all the mysteries that life can prove.
Must you adore me as if I were dead?
And all my cherished weaknesses were vain?
Why should you put a halo round my head
When I have asked you for a daisy chain?
And all my cherished weaknesses were vain?
Why should you put a halo round my head
When I have asked you for a daisy chain?
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