written 12/30/07

I haven't really edited this one but I'm posting it anyway.

Let’s see if you can handle this,
Me and all my beauty, darkness and gloom.
Did the snake bite you too hard?
Did you assume I was a vixen?
I can tell-
You don’t want no Magdalene.

Well I’ll take you down paths you’ve never been before,
Through evergreens and seas that sparkle bright and blue.
My eyes will sway you back and forth
Seduced,
You will find yourself in a vortex
Far from this grey, cold city.

Your first sight of me was fuzzy,
Did you too think I was the secret?
Some frightening but hypnotic paradox,
A crooked mystery?
You started down my labyrinth of passions and dreams,
Got so lost you searched desperately,
Trying to find a way out.

I know it’s hard for you, baby
Cuz sometimes my heart bleeds an ocean of passion,
It flows like lava, leaking out of my gaping pores,
So be careful when you’re near-You may slip and scrape your baby-soft hands.
You’d never seen scars like mine,
Till you peeled my layers off,
Stripped from green to blue to red
Searching my bleeding, beating heart for meaning-
A morsel of magic in your jaded soul.

Do I make you believe in heaven?
Do you see the angels in my eyes?
And when you kiss my ivory skin,
Do your eyes light up like shining stars?
Does the world topple and spin,
Only to bring you tumbling down?

Yeh there’s no straight line with me,
But you’ll never find a love like this
(So you’ve heard a thousand times before).
Search far and wide for such a woman
Who’ll lay you down on tender beds of grass,
Who’ll press your fingers deep into the earth
And show you why this life was made.
I’ll flow through your veins like a drug you can’t resist.
Your poison and your oxygen at once.
I’ll be your muse, your art-
You can make me up like a doll,
Press me flat on your naked canvas,
But I’ll come bleeding through every time-
Leaving messy ink stains on your fingertips.

So now are you terrified-
To sprout wings and soar far above?
Is it Earth you desire or the great beyond?
Cuz I’ll trap you like Calypso,
So best to dock your boat on some other island,

I won’t be your paperdoll,
Your trophy wife
Donned with pearls and perfect eyelashes,
But I’ll be your fire-
And I’ll warm your cold fingers when they’re tired and numb.
And when you can’t find your way through a foggy night
With just one headlight,
I’ll be there to guide you along the way.

I’ll take you to your childhood,
When you licked cherry popsicles down to their chalky sticks,
And opened your mouth wide to taste the gentle rain.
I’ll be the woman who visits you in the night,
The passion you can’t deny.

I’m no easy ride baby-
But I’ll be the best you’ll ever have.