Foul snake despair
  Where once you darkened gardens
  Another coils there
  Where twice you sliced all hope from me
  And left these present scars
  An insane love now burns above
  The weft of incandescent stars
  
  Hilt your dripping fangs the range
  Skywards to rend apart
  I might have sang of wings unchained
  But long before I locked my heart
  
  For Gabrielle
  A fit and perfect stitch of foreign parts
  Whose beauty fostered poets
  Whose laugh like silver bells
  Thawed your bitter winter from my path
  
  Gabrielle
  
  Foul snake despair
  Where once you peddled secrets
  Another spoils there
  With speech that sweetens drowning
  In deep lagoons of eyes
  And legs that begged apologies
  For lengths they mesmerised
  
  Spare your hissing sentiments
  For Her fee welts more than thine
  Though no malice She weans
  Just a palace of dreams
  Where windswept chambers pine
  
  For Gabrielle
  Whose hair of spun onyx is run with gold
  Her rouge lips smack of dark blood
  Her name is whisper rolls
  Forever on my tongue
  Lest Her memory dissolve
  
  Gabrielle
  
  Once crucified
  I would have died
  A thousand more times
  Just to fell Her breath
  On my neck as a fervent lover
  To drown Her sights
  In floods of tears so well refined
  And blind from spying Her
  In the arms of others…
  
  Buried inside
  Where She's all but mine
  Save for those that dine
  On Her perfect carcass
  
  Gabrielle
  
  Foul snake despair
  Where once you wreaked my misery
  Another toils there
  For long lost Gabrielle
  Whose nightly spreading grin
  Persists in other faces
  By whom I'm slowly taken in