Lydia

Paradise Lost

Through the searching lights

That weave and dart

Comes the stranger that

Cares not for your heart

The pain of living life this way

Must take its toll on you some day.

Your jaded eyes can see

Embarrassment or harm the frail skin

That bleeds emotionally on guard.



All lowest forms of life

Are pounding you inside

Your hollow cold display

Your tired masquerade

Let the image that you present entice

Unlike the mirror that shows the strains

Of vice this act of contact your decay

While willing souls will more that pay.