Crime Of Love - Michael Cashmore

In an Ecbatana Palace

All golds and silks

Demonic beauties

Adolescent Satans

Indulge in every sin

To the music of the sea

Beautiful feast of the sins

Desires shine with brutal fiery light

Like harassed servants appetites

Go round decanting bright red wine

Dances floating on wedding song

Sway in a long swoon of sobs

Man and women sing in great chorales

Sing music trembling like the sea

So full of deep enchantment

In the sweetness of these things

Countryside blooms with roses

And night is a diamond

The loveliest of these bad angel

Is aged sixteen and crowned with flowers

Arms folded over ruffs and fringes

He dreams his eyes ablaze with tears

He pays no heed to cavorting

His siblings Satans try in vain

To lure him out of desolation

With a welcome of wide open arms

He doesn't fall for the blandishments

Distress places its black butterfly

On that face forever set

To burn with anguish and despair