The Crimson Bride

With a dress so white and pure
A face so pale and lips so red
It’s hard to imagine that there is no cure

Laying in the rows
Where once you walked so happily
You never thought he could be your foe

The vows were read
And sealed with a kiss
And in that you were wed

I take you by this hand,
This hand I will always hold
I look you in the eye,
And hope that you will never die
I kiss you on these lips so soft,
I swear you never again will be lost
We will be together forever,
Until death do us part.

Parted we were
From the first finger you lain
Those bony white hands that touched my neck
The fingernails that scraped so deep
Your black eyes that one could never love
Glinted with the sight of blood

You watched me in this white dress of mine
Fall to the ground and shudder,
You sat there in that church pew
You watched until there was no colour left,
Until my dress was no longer white
My dress was a beautiful colour of red,
The colour my lips once were,
The colour they were before you sealed the deal
The colour they will always remember me by

The Crimson Bride