I know secrets of marble;    The kisses I've known of mercury were   A diamond-hard pearl, though impervious,    Bears memories etched      The gilded wires hide darkness   Yet there the sun-flame a lyric sings   Though I feel like an object   Though I'm blinded, something still thinks...   Eyes suddenly unveiled,    Gone the innocence, with the fragrant lace   I shroud myself in my wings and I turn into a white pearl      The sun is beckoning to me,    A warm sea's lying at my feet   Then all at once a prod,    Within a part that was unknown to me      I cannot turn these thoughts off,    Like a screen when the eyes smart   End of the world, not yet of my path   I still have to dart down   Shedding off my fear and my pain   I see   Now I can see through the waves      And then a sudden enlightening   There was more than the eye met   But as I'm slowly sinking   I can feel no regret...