A tenebrous rose Revels in misery Wilting with fatal mystique Yet to drown Tears crawl down Longing for some kind of escape Looming with astral elegance Insatiable desires Plunging into forbidden play The scars of sickness Perennial suffering The precious poison Won't wash this curse away Pleasure to pain Shackles clench tighter Sanity frays Clinging to life While nurturing death Another petal falls away