Foul snake despair   Where once you darkened gardens   Another coils there   Where twice you sliced all hope from me   And left these present scars   An insane love now burns above   The weft of incandescent stars      Hilt your dripping fangs that range   Skywards to rend apart   I might have sang of wings unchained   But long before I locked my heart      For Gabrielle   A fit and perfect stitch of foreign parts   Whose beauty fostered poets   Whose laugh like silver belts   Thawed your bitter winter from my path      Gabrielle      Foul snake despair   Where once you peddled secrets   Another spoils there   With speech that sweetens drowning   In deep lagoons of eyes   And legs that begged apologies   For lengths that mesmerised      Spare your hissing sentiments   For her fee welts more than thine   Though no malice she weans   Just a palace of dreams   Where windswept chambers pine      For Gabrielle   Whose hair-spun onyx is run with gold   Her rouge lips smack of dark blood   Her name in whisper rolls   Forever on my tongue   Lest her memory dissolve      Gabrielle   Oh, Gabrielle      Once crucified   I would have died   A thousand more times   Just to feel her breath   On my neck as a fervent lover   To drown her sighs   In floods of tears so well refined   And blind from spying her   In the arms of others      Gabrielle   Gabrielle      Buried inside   Where she’s all but mine   Save for those that dine   Oh her, on her perfect carcass      Gabrielle   Gabrielle      Foul snake despair   Where once you wreaked my misery   Another toils there   For long lost Gabrielle   Whose nightly spreading grin   Persists in other faces   By whom I’m slowly taken in