Foul snake despair
Where once you darkened gardens
Another coils there
Where twice you sliced all hope from me
And
left these present scars
An insane love now burns above
The weft of incandescent stars
Hilt your dripping fangs that
range
Skywards to rend apart
I might have sang of wings unchained
But long before I locked my heart
For Gabrielle
A fit
and perfect stitch of foreign parts
Whose beauty fostered poets
Whose laugh like silver belts
Thawed your bitter winter from my
path
Gabrielle
Foul snake despair
Where once you peddled secrets
Another spoils there
With speech that sweetens
drowning
In deep lagoons of eyes
And legs that begged apologies
For lengths that mesmerised
Spare your hissing
sentiments
For her fee welts more than thine
Though no malice she weans
Just a palace of dreams
Where windswept chambers
pine
For Gabrielle
Whose hair-spun onyx is run with gold
Her rouge lips smack of dark blood
Her name in whisper
rolls
Forever on my tongue
Lest her memory dissolve
Gabrielle
Oh, Gabrielle
Once crucified
I would have
died
A thousand more times
Just to feel her breath
On my neck as a fervent lover
To drown her sighs
In floods of tears so
well refined
And blind from spying her
In the arms of others
Gabrielle
Gabrielle
Buried inside
Where she's all
but mine
Save for those that dine
Oh her, on her perfect carcass
Gabrielle
Gabrielle
Foul snake despair
Where
once you wreaked my misery
Another toils there
For long lost Gabrielle
Whose nightly spreading grin
Persists in other
faces
By whom I'm slowly taken in