Here's To The Night

She hides for day, chased away, as am I
I find my lusts quelled, my essence made lie
When she has left me, and the morn is nigh
On comes the glaze of humanity's lie
The emptiness inside oppressed by show
Not to be felt but in darkness alone
Never to be embodied in the daily drone
Without you my dear, my only joy to moan

          The cold of darkness is my love tryst
          Here's to the night, your kiss, my mistress

Alluring night, black heart, the deepest kind
Ah! To be alone in your sombre shine
The beacons of twinkled light in your sky
Huddled beneath you, on crisp air we dine
The trees of shadow bless us with myst'ry
Gaurding me with shy creeping mist I see
My dream to be hidden for all eternity
Morning birds sing sad our intimacy

          The cold of darkness is my love tryst
          Here's to the night, your kiss, my mistress

My escape, my bliss, all my dark wishes
Haunted by ghosts of devils and witches
Our secret safe, they fear of near-misses
Scared by thoughts, shadows, and thorny thickets
My biggest fears are realized in the night
Tis why I love thee, you bring out my fight
Were-wolf passion as I look in thine eye
More your soul immersed but betters my sight

          The cold of darkness is my love tryst
          Here's to the night, your kiss, my mistress

Sometimes the owl visits in a torrent
Though jealous of our still, silent habit
It is inquisitive, intelligent
But ruled by you, to you it falls servant
Will I walk with, but beside only you
Born for my own time, but show me your truth
The day I die is the day I will rue
I yearn death under night sky, sunless blue

          The cold of darkness is my love tryst
          Here's to the night, your kiss, my mistress

Roses to sleep, silent, never to scream
Their sunshine stolen away, left to dream
My frights bundled till your first star is seen
Set down your fear she'll dress up to serene
Save me this night lady of hazy grace
Stir me with candle fires oe'r your face
Entice me, seduce me, lead me with chase
If't takes me all long day, I'll match the pace

          The cold of darkness is my love tryst
          Here's to the night, your kiss, my mistress

It could be you're damned, it might be you're not
Take me with you, I'll wither if't you're gone
I must serve the sun, forgive me, it's wrong
But I long for you, your lifeblood, your song
Water to black blood, waves in charcoal sea
Pounding your heartbeat so consistently
My damnation that I'll ne'r live to be
Live of age to illume your mystery

          The cold of darkness is my love tryst
          Here's to the night, your kiss, my mistress

Coming sunrise steals your best qualities
Quick and fast my mistress make love to me
I need your last caress, make me believe
That our time was not vain, that you love me
Downcast, I grieve you now, for you are gone
Tears of heartfelt sorrow, sunkissed with dawn
The day comes, I force myself a new song
The dry, distilling, dysmal, drone of dawn.

          The dread fear of the dawn is my love tryst
          Gone is the night, I'll miss, my mistress