Tender Cruelty

Begging for tender cruelties

I am the voice of beauty and pain

begging to drown screaming in your rain

begging to be led

and dragged to your bed.

I am the un-sated desire

an ever raging fire

the voice that speaks in your dreams

begging for beautiful and obscene things.

I am the voice that whispers quietly in the night

I am the one bound to your dreams

I am the one who would set the beast free

begging sweetly for tender cruelty.

I am the voice of surrender and pain

I am the drops of rain as they fall upon your face

I am alive in the cold winter's night

I am the darkness inside every light.

I slip into your dreams

and set the beast free

begging softly for tender cruelty.

I am the beginning and the end

as your darkest desires 

whisper in my head.

I am everything we fear ourselves to be

yet you dreamed me into your reality.

Here I walk

somewhere between life and death

A soft breath

whispering in your ear

that we are everything we love and fear.

I am your darkest desires

bound by a thread

I am the whore in your bed,

all your desires waiting to be fed.

Beauty and pain

become one and the same

as I beg

for tender cruelty.