The Woman of The Snow: Cold Deep Heart

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The Lures of destruction

Stiffen their engaging grasp

In the Webs of Water Lilies and Blood

Mortal Coils

Eyes of fire

Devotion the most infinite Trap

Lady of the Snow

Webbing her tears of Ice

Heart obscures all hope

Lady of the Waters

Vespers

The expiring map

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Circumspection: A Sigh to Relief



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Prudence

The will to a calm

Prudence

Never suffering the worldly charm

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Inside

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and

Beneath

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Lies the head of the wanderer

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And his heart,

A cloud

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Passing all that is solid

Passing all that is Clear

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Come Hither My lost Child

Come to see all that had passed

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With your wary little limbs

And your heavy stride so Lithe

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Will you Heed all that is not encountered?

Heed the passings which haunt?

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Come into my haunted garden

Come tread this ghastly path

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Your eyes so lost and distant

Your mouth so firm and drawn

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Devotion is ever dreaming

Awake, this the dead end breath

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The fires that had burned inside you

The Wind which carried your here

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Respect, this the tree of delusion

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Enamored deadly

forever these briars

to trap

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Prudent

the will to heed and disarm

Prudent

A life enshrouded,

completely embalmed

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Void of Silence

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How calm the dead seas

Which Rise

Passing this blooming Void

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How desolate these valid plains

Whose Beauty

Neither touches the earth or sky

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How careful these bodies

Which reach into the hollowing Void

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These motions of departing desires

These impressions of unforgiving regrets

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I abide these endless deserts

I rove this comfortless plot

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Though this planet I breathe is feigning

These lips so pallid and pink

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A whisper on the clouds of desperation

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My hope, my home

this silence, the purest void

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La Salva De Profundis

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The wandering salvation

Murders the Crop

The wheat of the wanderer

Is feeding

Quicksands final drop

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In the waters that lead

In the valleys that want

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In the narrows this calm

In these hands of conservation

The footsteps which haunt

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Leading this destruction

One tear of reclamation

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My saviour

My Fear

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The crippling look of Desire

The burning Torches of love

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Coward,

save the enduring black Soul

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The Pearl

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For they cannot see

With the eyes they have been given

Touching upon the colorless

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For they cannot feel

With the hearts often forsaken

Touching upon the hardening sheaths

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For They cannot breathe

With the breath of a thousand children

Touching these openings of forbidden calm

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For they once will Walk

And they unceasingly wander the impure

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Yet the treasured, this glory

It will always

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Remain…

Unmarred

Defaced by the alms of the forsaken

Remained…

By the lives that so seldom speak

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Open…

To the surrounding unclean

Closed…

To its own uncustomary delicacies

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