Gradually

The cold, besieged in eggshell keeps,
untroubled by your sceptres, sleep,
while blows may rain upon its steeps
the mottled gates stay sealed,
but thrust into the blistering deeps
regretfully, we yield.

Despite the urge to misbehave,
we shall resist the deference they've;
"the pressure's always there to cave"
and yet our spirit's high,
surrender's mocking trust is brave
but humility have I.
(our kindness's abandon's grave,
for sincerity, you die!)

Tears forgive a shared conceit,
a secret claimed by memory's defeat,
in snow, the realist's path repeats
while romance flecks the ground,
in angles never starred again
dismissed, the light profound.

mp3 player playlist

This is my "Music for Melodramatic Nightwalkers" selection which is strange as I'm trying to be cheerful nowadays, but a touch of darkness does bring a smile to my face. It looks like my musical progression has stagnated a little, because a lot of these albums are quite familiar. Anyway, there's some cute fluff to be found among the picks:

Ahvak - Ahvak
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Who is This America
Art Bears - The World as it is Today
Art Zoyd - Les Espaces Inquiets
Beyond Dawn - Pity Love
Bjoerk - Homogenic
Boris - Amplifier Worship
Burzum - Filosofem
Christian Vander - Wurdah Itah
Deerhoof - Milk Man
Einstuerzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
Eloy - Inside
Fela Kuti - Monkey Banana & Excuse O
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Osore-zan & Dou no Kenbai
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞
Guernica - 電離層からの眼差し
Harpy - Sleep Trumpet
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Hyponic - The Noise of Time
Jannick Top - Soleil d'Ork
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
King Crimson - Red
Kraftwerk - Ralf & Florian
Machine and the Synergetic Nuts - Leap Second Neutral
Maneige - Les Porches
Melvins - Honky
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Namco Sound Team - Klonoa 2 - Lunatea's Veil OST
OOIOO - Taiga
Panzerpappa - Korallrevens Klagesang
Picchio dal Pozzo - Camere Zimmer Rooms
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Reverend Bizarre - Slave of Satan (single)
Scald - Will of the Gods is Great Power
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
Takako Minekawa - Roomic Cube
Teeth of Lions Rules the Divine - Rampton
Tyranny - Tides of Awakening
Ulver - Perdition City
Wha-ha-ha - Shinutokiwa Betsu
Yes - Relayer
Zeni Geva - Freedom Bondage

I'm going to test it by being a melodramatic nightwalker, and hopefully it'll help me to come back with a poem.

Vampire Love Chant

My appetite's your relief squared,
agreement's snug in a meal shared,
alleve your concern through contingence made certain,
in company's beacon the candle's spared.

Drain the cup, so it may be refilled.

Reason not for poison halled,
beyond these walls it's vitamin called,
our jugular hinge veils epiphany's curtain,
in acuity's season men are appalled.

Drain the cup, so it may be refilled.

Snowball

There's no real harm in staying out in the snow,
since the dimensions it bends don't know
that they're relative.

Don't let the avalanche cling to your feet,
rather dive in and swim the street
interconnective.

Sunshine pulls mountains right out of the ground,
ancient walls that no tunnel found
for flow conducive.

Such structures don't know the horizon they're stealing,
so we'll spin until they're ceilings
or floors, respective.