by Emma Stone

Created on: June 29, 2010

Goodnight my Love

Goodnight my love the bleeding twilight dies swift

Overshadowed by night’s dark air brushed monotone hues

Victorious shifts of brave beams pierce the inky quilt and gift

Vulnerable earth with constant watchmen for nocturnal news

The clamorous carriage creaks with sodden, warped wood atop the hill

As soft misty tears kiss the blinkered cheeks of its faithful fuel

And to it I must in haste my love though sleep claims you still

In blackened garb by midnight flight or lose the fixed fight in the devil’s duel

Goodnight my love may you dream fondly of me

And forgive a heart too full of love to weep with guilt

See through bewitching blue in my loving hazel gaze, sincerity

Never doubt I belong to thee as the moon the tides tilt

As the Earth surrenders willingly to the fiery force of the sun

I would have vowed to be your bride through eternal dusks and dawn

Bowed in bound oblations lowly by my master’s heel I’d be content to shun

My father’s ambitions in soft white lace like the downy feathers of the graceful swan

To the world I have dishonoured myself and I have disgraced you

To my heart I am lawfully wed and bounteously blessed

But you, my love, deserve such happiness that the secret true

Must be sullied.  I lie for you that you may hate me in your betrayed but innocent aching chest

I love you, my angel.  Never more will I wake

Though exist I must for our union’s sake

Alone I will embrace this journey of shame

For my future love who will bear your name

I believe, I trust in you my light

I only will live now in memory’s dream by night

Your smile, your voice, your scent, the feel of your warmth against my breast

To trance the soft features of your timeless face by each sunless hour with my husband my soul shall rest

Of all the treasures of Earth and high Heaven above

I wish only for another chance to loving sigh, ‘Goodnight my love’

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