The sky is dark and the stars twinkle like diamonds

On a bridge in Delos
You told me that you loved me
The sky is dark
The stars twinkle like diamonds. . .

Yellow eyes could not keep me from you
The sky is dark. .
On a bridge in Delos
You said. .
That youd love me
. . .twinkling like diamonds

I wandered aloneI left my city
The yellow eyes could not keep me from you
The sky is dark. .
On a bridge in Delos
I met you.

You said I love you.
The sky twinkled with diamonds.
Upon my hand, a night sky circles my finger
On a bridge in Delos
You said you loved me.

Upon my finger a diamond shines
The night sky in my palm
The river beneath the bridge
In Delos
Whispers the lies.

The Yellow eyes
Pursued me. I followed.
Through it all
You said you loved me.

On a bridge in Delos
I left my city
I left my family
I turned my back to those who loved me.
The stars twinkled like diamonds.

I left my city
The voices too loud
The falsehoods you believed
The yellow eyes dimmed.
You said you loved me
On that bridge in Delos.

I lost you.
I lost myself.
I gained nothing.

I speak a languagenow dead in the world
The syllables fall from my lips
Upon silent ears.
I lost your love on that bridge in Delos.
I lost your love to those words
To that language
To the yellow eyes
To the dead language
To the night sky
. . .which shimmered with Diamonds.

Beneath the bridge in Delos
Upon the still waters
A young siren smiles
A young Atavian holds her in his wings

A memory
Of stars
Of night


Penned by my hand on the 13th of Lupar, in the year 400 AF.