Aurora
  by Nora Avalon

Turn me around again
I have drowned in this deepest crimson pool
The vicious cruelty of unbidden death
Seems almost righteous by your hand

Light springs from your eyes
And finds its nest within my soul
You make the darkness into magic
Such that it shames the sunrise

But 'til you feed me from your veins 
I feel lost in this forest of night 
As though simple black distance
Could keep me from your embrace

Don't turn away from me
This passion breeds hideous desperation
Even I, beneath this facade of stone and ice
Lay vulnerable to love's misery

Do you see me on my knees for you?
Or do the heat of your contempt 
And the shame of your own safe lies
Shield you from this difficult though intangible truth

You were my sun and moon, my heaven and hell, my midnight and my aurora
The love and the death, the agony and the rapture, the end and the beginning 
What glory you have denied me, what beauty you have destroyed
But when I shall renounce the journey back, then shall I die

March '99