Scarlet

Will you take a cup of wine
It is the sweetest wine, my love
Will you drink full and down
It will fill you and feel you

Oh taste our wine and drink your fill
Drink deep and swallow it all
Make your body a debaucherous hall
Caress our neck with your heavy lips

Pour just a drink more
Just one more swallow is all
Bring the glass to your lips
Imbibe the sweet river of blood

Blood from among the stars
That washes out into the heart
And spills upon the liar’s bed
She has made treachery her holy art

Come drink and follow your desire
Come find our red lips
Step into your red mist dream
And cling to rest for me

Dance in the moonlight
And follow the yellow lights
Into the woods
To our house below

Down and under the earth
Under root and stone
Where cold never rests
Come, come into our home

Rest at the fire while we hold your hands
Stare deep and long into that warm light
And more and more we pour
Drink, drink, and live

Live into the fullness and joy of life
For life is blood and so short
The blood gets old
But we will keep you young

We will keep you young forever
And you can stay in your dream
Yes, dream and eat to your pleasure
We will pour for you more wine

Kiss us and tell us your cares
Let us steal them away
Let us bare them too
For you are us and we are you

Let not the mirror lie
For now you are never alone
So fill our cups too
For as you drank with us, so we drink with you

Calm your heart
You tarnished blasphemy
Hold us close and we will whisper to you
Sweet caressing words

Blowing on your ear
Tickling your neck
Sliding our hands across your chest
Our words kissing you

With sweet honeyed lips
And upturned mouths
They beg for you
Come, darling, drink your fill

You shall never grieve
For our lips are eternal
You look so delicious to us
We want to drink you in

Let us drink you and kiss you
Drag your body across ours
Delicate and soft
We come to you whole and good

Hold us in your arms
Love us in secret of night’s black calumny
Hide us among the shadows of your heart
Bind us close among the cares of your soul

Where were you?
Who took you?
No matter
Come back to us

Lay with us
And call us out
From among the starry night
The moon hides her face

So dance! Dance! Dance! with us
And we will dance with you

Until the stars are blind
And the sun does dawn
Until the river gleams
And the first dews yawn

But evermore will we wait for you
Though do not keep us long
Tarry in the waking world if you must
Though your dreams will always drift to us

Like the curling smoke
And the wandering heart
Ever and always
To us