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I don't know how many nights
I've spent wide awake
in pain beside your beauty,
in awe of your face

I don't know how many lives
lost to the veil-
brother, sister, friend, foe-
will have to die for my fight
for a love, I'll never let go of

Where could we run?
Where could I escape
my destiny, with you?
from the wonders of your grace,
you're so beautiful
upon that stage,
larger than life,
more than the comprehension of my eyes

Take me whole,
chew me up,
inject me into your soul

I don't know how many tears
I'll have to shed,
but never admit
I don't know how many king's
throats I'll have to slit,
before I can keep you

Watch them run,
watch our foes
fall on their knees and tremble
before me

take me whole,
love me, I beg
make these deaths worth something
instead of ceaseless regret

My beautiful one,
my painful one,
inject me into your soul

make all the lives
lost to the veil
dying for my love,
worth all the cost

I don't know how many nights
on the shores of our Troy
I roll over and meet your eyes

And I don't know how much longer
we have,
or what is to come
'til the horde consumes us all,
We will fight, and fight and fight
for this love.
~brittany
4/28/11