Her immortal cast takes a bow and exits the stage
But the curtain does not fall on this last act
For the spotlight lingers adoringly
On Aphrodite’s lissom figure
Which is lovingly swathed in the fragrant smoke
Still rising from the censer that slowly swings
But now in time to music that swells with romance
The light sweeps left in a lustrous arc
To slide its embrace around the myrrh tree
Where Adonis has been waiting for her
Holding in his beautiful hands
The last anemone
~*~
A love that could but cry
Its mourning to the sky
L'amore È Più Forte Della Morte
A love that would neither let the tears dry
Nor its obsessive bonds untie
L'amore È Più Forte Della Morte
A love that became a sigh
Which never stopped asking why
L'amore È Più Forte Della Morte
~*~
The last time she had seen her beloved was as a corpse
Upon which she had wept so bitterly
That heaven itself was torn asunder
And the ragged pieces that remained
Had shivered in an ethereal shroud of rain
And her tears had consecrated his body
As she dedicated her life to finding him
And thus in each and every place
Where a drop of his precious blood fell
Scarlet anemones had faithfully grown
A pathway seeded with love’s nectar
That would lead her to him
~*~
A love that could not say goodbye
But that simply had to try
L'amore È Più Forte Della Morte
A love that refused to die
And a way through did espy
L'amore È Più Forte Della Morte
A love that saw him with the mind’s mystic eye
And for him in the face of danger did fly
L'amore È Più Forte Della Morte
~*~
The anemones would bloom until she found him
And so this last one droops its scarlet head
Adonis lays it gently to rest
In symbol of the sacrifice
Aphrodite has unreservedly made
For the sake of this love that defines her
She kneels before him in that pool of shimmering light
And his soul falls into the depths of hers
As the Elysian waterfall
Caresses every contour of their beauty
They know their kiss will forever seal
A love stronger than death
~*~
A love that dared to defy
The power of the dark vampiric lie
L'amore È Più Forte Della Morte
A love that was not of peril shy
But on destiny did always rely
L'amore È Più Forte Della Morte
A love that death could not deny
With its goddess did comply
L'amore È Più Forte Della Morte
