My soul for a night with you

For you I'll sin, for you I'll lie
and should I be required to
I'd take the sun right from the sky
For you I'll maim, for you I'll kill
whatever I may have to do
but spend that night with you I will

For you I'd was my hands in blood
I'd tarnish what was innocent
bring down the very House of God
I'd devour all morality
would strangle all the friends I have
and calmly drown my family

For you I'd burn a thousand times
if it would get me my desire
and if the Bell of Fate still chimes
I'd summon forth the Devil's ire
from the darkest heathen heart in Hell
and burn myself in blazing fire

I'd sell my soul for a night with you
beg the Devil if I needed to
there's nothing that I would not do;
I'd cheat, I'd steal, I'd die for you
if there were the faintest chance
that I could spend a night with you

If I will have to burn in Hell
until the end of Time and after
then embrace my doom I shall
and burn I will forevermore
so I can spend a night with you
such as you've never seen before

But let me spend a night with you
and anything you ask I'll do
Please let me spend a night with you
My heart and mind to you are true
if I can spend one night with you
this soul of mine will be your due

Every oath I ever took
Broken and forsaken
Selfishly in search of bliss
I wander now, purposeless
For my soul's been taken

~*~

I wrote this poem some time in 2004, put it online, and promptly forgot about its existence. I found it again recently when looking through some of my older stuff and realised that I actually quite liked it, even in its unpolished form. I've done some rigorous editing to give it some more structure and improve the piece. It's come with a handful of small sacrifices, but on the whole I think it is better in this form than in its first published version. Only the final stanza has not been changed. It doesn't quite fit with the rest of the structure, but I like that it stresses the change in tone a little more.