Sweet decadence of instants already vanished
In the void of my loneliness, I found affliction
And dust of decay fell over me like an incessant rain
Whilst I wandered alone in the cold nighttime
Suddenly, I saw my fears, and anguish gripped me
Making me captive in its dark dungeon
Where a sweet decadence waited for me to swallow my soul
And shattering my heart in infinite fragments of love and pain
Hence, I sighed, waiting for fate to destroy my dreams and expectations
A moment of death and transformation
Like a nocturnal moth morphing into an everlasting flame
Surrounded by the merciless void of indifference and unbending decree
The magic touch of the stars stroked my hair
While I got lost in the labyrinth of my dreams
Dreams that appeared as nightmares
Undisclosed secrets of all the forbidden lives I lived
Drowning in the deep and dark ocean
Where I kept my fragile and stormy mysteries
Arcane truths hid underneath my soul
The sources of my fantasmagorical realm of fantasies
Sweet decadence became my languid alcove
My secret world to which I always belonged
And I will always belong
My treasure chest was full of dust of decay and anguish
All the fruits of betrayal poisoned my essence
Tainting my heart with their ink of blood and darkness
Subtly whispering lovely words of love and exquisite sweetness
Entangling me with its chains of silk and gold
In the garden of my forbidden desires and passions
Enticed by their spells and mesmerised by the lush of their scent
I fell into a perpetual slumber, and the death of my wisdom and sanity occurred suddenly
It was a consequence of the venomous thorns of nocturnal roses
I closed my eyes to look inside my dreams of sweet decadence and decay
I segregated myself from the world
I created my own secret world made of magnificence and beauty
A realm belonging only and only to me
My kingdom and heavenly refuge of joy.
Elisabetta