Just before the day break
 

Just before the day break
 

gallows twigs are awake
 

demanding your lover’s life
 

as for loving you, they won’t accept
 

any other price…
 

Just before the day break
 

nooses are again awake
 

asking for your devotee’s neck
 

as that’s the only thing they consider
 

is worth hanging and break…
 

That’s the only thing
 

that can honor the hangman’s noose
 

the noose, that so passionately
 

he went on to choose
 

and for such a long time
 

is anxiously waiting to use
 

to decorate that worthy neck
 

before pulling off the deck
 

beneath the helpless feet
 

of your lover, who can be
 

what else, but frenzied
 

as he accepts being hanged again and again
 

but just can’t refrain from sayin
 

that it’s still true
 

that he can’t stop loving you…
 

Soon the barren walkways
 

leading to the execution grounds
 

will be filled with thumping sounds
 

of heavy boots of death cell guards
 

The silent, sleepy walkways
 

that’ll take your lover to his death
 

will soon become alive
 

with his last breath
 

Marching heavy boots
 

may run through your spine, causing a shiver
 

but if you listen carefully
 

they are escorting actually
 

feeble footsteps of your lover
 

that never even quiver
 

eager to go and be hanged in vain
 

only to uphold the dignity
 

of your beguiling beauty
 

Innocent feet
 

which once dreamed
 

of walking on the pathways
 

that reach your doorsteps
 

sprinkled with flowers and petals
 

ended up on these walkways
 

covered with burning coals
 

and sharp, unforgiving thorns
 

that all lead to fields of death
 

where hangmen and nooses await
 

gunmen focusing not to miss target
 

guillotines sharpened to decapitate
 

Just before the sunrise
 

killing grounds open their eyes
 

hungry for someone’s life, asking
 

“Is there anyone worth crucifying?”
 

Those voices enter the solitude of my pen
 

and I immediately know, yet again
 

it’ll be me, letting myself be slain
 

for how else can I maintain
 

the rapture of your love spell
 

in which I always wished to dwell
 

and how else can I fulfill
 

my pledge to always love you
 

so my beloved, my friend
 

its time for you
 

to bid me adieu…………..
 

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 A sudden desire