Near Dark

Agathodaimon

Part One





This is a world blessed by the victims


Of carnal tragedy


the humans ritual of love and adoration


Dense-woven history





Sentiments decide existance, the artwork that I've bled


Bizarre she defined her presence


With the lament of the undead


When her eyes have bathed in danger


And the moon had new design


In the cradle of our desire all the blood has turned to wine


But the love no longer remained than just a stir to survive


In this labyrinth of perfidity for my mistress to recover


I'll forever strive...





Part Two





Dem Sterbenden - die Hoffnung


Dem Propheten - Der Fluch


Der Liebe - die Dichtung, die dem Sterben entsprung...





The night is crystal clear - words are sent from pictures


Sounds that I can't hear - as weakness wins my body


Selling cheap my soul - and its bleeding heart


Eclipsing the whole - planet, history and light...





Part Three





Sometimes, when the sun hides in the back of the earth


When the hungry souls, to whom pain gave birth


Embalm their coldness with the blood's warmth... then


I can clearly hear the calling of a lonely and distant star





In the shade of the abhorrent


Yet in the still of the nights - In the still of the moment


When the moment dies


There she gently approaches


With the new meaning of life...





In a haze of hazard, in the withering chill


Baleful's the passion, when hearts stand still





A flood of sentiments entwined


Rattle thru my falling soul


I slumber against the spirit of time


Like a stranger in a foreign world!





In a park, along the alleys, stained with blood and tears


In the hour, when dusk disperses


Its colors on the white statues





Then I'll wander as a phantom of the posthumous regrets


And my fiery lips I'll freeze


With the kiss of these unrivalled statues





"Si-n asta noapte sfirsese printr-un sarut


Poeme - agonizate de-un infinit si-un inceput"





Part Four





"The all-engulfing dawn of habitude shows his claws again-


Do you still remember our oath? - Til light do us part!?"





Come forth, Feline


Mere moment of melancholy


Drink deep of my desire


The quenchless fire


That unites our tameless embers...





come forth, Feline


Tortured by our final duet


Let thy pale fingers slide on the petals of the flowers


That thee stained with mortal, coagulated blood...





on the walls, midnight closes even the stoical eyes


Of the unsleeping portraits


And the white-eye of a lonely candle falls asleep


Into its own startling solitude...





Part Five





Silent heart desires


The balm that drives away the human waste


Oh come, infidel duchess


Shrouds of frost fall furiously down... of thee I taste again





Deciphering eternity of its ruined scripts


Of the tenebrious river I pleasantly sip


Upon lifeless leaves autumn has banished


Arises my lovelorn aura's odyssey





"Un ornic cu rostiri funebre, suna amiaza-ndirjit


Iar ceru-mprastia tenebre, peste parcul amortit"





...Returned into that park as a whole


Under the questioning eyes of stars and heavens


Dreaming away on the lost love I've recovered





Death suddenly rises


Annoyed that he couldn't save me


He turns pale from envy





The seasons vanish and so does this story


As the same poets hand raises the pen


He pictured this spectacle with...





The actors fade on the dreary alleys of that elder park


Only two nightshades remaining -


Celebrating the sunset of ages while their sullen laughter


Lustfully haunts the mortal seeds of ruin...





Nights were crystal clear - words were sent from pictures


The colors have seared - these pages, whereas


The darkest hour revealed - the mysterious hand


Which dutifully sealed