Oh, and if you've ever seen anythig made with Alilbaster, you'll understand this a little better, but if you haven't...Alabaster is a very hard, smooth kind of semi-precious stone which, if carved to extreme thinness, can actually glow when lit from behind.
Sapphires,
Blue diamonds,
Turquoise,
Pale jade,
All these I see
Reflected in your gaze...
Why do you look at me?
All these precious gems
In the golden setting of your long lashes,
Framed by the crescents of your arching eyebrows,
And the pale white-gold tones of your
Alabaster skin...
Smooth and cold,
Warm and glowing,
Alive, as I am not.
Never was.
Will never be.
My heart,
What heart?
I have none, or so I've been told.
And yet...
Something aches
Which never did,
Which cannot,
Must not,
Be revealed.
All I can ever do
Is cause misery,
Suffering,
Abandonment...
Right?
Can this be wrong?
The heart I do not have tells me so.
Are you my heart?
Oh alabaster beauty?
You must be, for I
Never had one before
You were here.
Stay,
Forever,
Please,
I need
A heart
To live...
But I am not Alive;
Cannot be alive!
I died at birth!
I killed at death!
So this cannot
Be...
But it is.
Be mine,
Stay here,
I will never harm you...
Never in my life,
Never in my death,
Harm you.
I would
Harm myself.
I do harm myself!
I harm you!
Just by accepting this I
Condemn you,
Condemn myself...
Why not?
Could be fun, don't you
Agree?
Could be fun,
Could be love,
Could be perfect,
Could be doom,
Could be all,
Who knows?
It doesn't matter anyway.
Living dead without you would be worse.
How do you feel?
I know you must
Feel something...
Hate?
Revulsion?
Where are they?
They have disappeared and I do not know what else to
Look for,
Cannot see
What else there is
In those gems.
Alabaster features;
As cold as a statue,
As warm and living as the fire seen through it,
Framing and framed by gold.
Set with two precious stones;
Pale Jade,
Turquoise,
Blue Diamonds,
Sapphires...