You must know how I love you,


So rest here in my arms.


Lay your head upon my chest;


I'll keep you safe from harm.

Close your eyes, my lovely,


In peaceful hallowed sleep.


Let your thoughts go idle,


To slumbered dreams so deep.

Allow my trembling fingers


To part your silken down;


To move it from your forehead


And brush it to your crown.

Grant me touch your temples,


Caress your dainty ear;


Let me lean in closer


To whisper words so dear.

With me you’ll stay forever.


Can you not understand?


Hear my explanation, while


I hold your soft, pale hand.

I would not let them steal you.


'Tis why we had to flee.


'Tis why I had to bind you,


And hide you here with me.

My last kiss on your ruby lips


—now stilled and so remote—


can't heal my fingers' bruises


Encircling your slim throat.

Poetry by The Blue-eyed Bipedal Bookworm from Betelgeuse

Blue-Eyed BiPedal Bookworm from Betelgeuse

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