For Lucifer

Turn your eyes away

They burn my brain too fiercely

And light my face on fire

With the white heat of your soul.

She said you're too intense for her

and passed you on to me,

like a scalding potato thrown

from hand to hand at a childrens' fete.

She told me I'm the only one

who could know how to manage you,

But her faith is misplaced, and I fear it My dear --

it is I will be handled by you.

Your quiet assurance frightens me more

Than your beauty impresses the rest

So I run from your presence only to find

Myself trampled in the wake of your loves.

They stifle and strangle

But still you forebear

To push them away, for you need

The cheers of the crowd more than me.

You hold me by threads of lightening,

Far too thin and too strong to be seen.

And you swear you will melt

The ice in my heart with the fire in yours.

I believe you, my Lucifer

More than you know

When you tell me the day is the night.

So get thee behind me...

And don't scorch my crown,

The Ice Queen and Satan could never be One.