Savage Nights / Les Nuits Fauves

~ Cyril you devil ~

As savage as these nights are
Nothing bites harder
Nor licks its tongue smoother
Than the cold breeze after a midnight tryst with the devil

It's a cruel, unrelenting world I saw that night
With colors most majestic
And tastes unheard of before
Yet I couldn't help the feeling
That something was dragging me down as I rose up high

You with your tender ears and
Loving eyes could not possibly understand
Where I've been or what I've done
When I tell you I've been the devil
Or dipped a finger in a cauldron of fire and brimstone

Strike me down
End this fleeting and momentary agony
My knowledge knows no common ground
With your innocence
We were never meant to collide,

Here or today
So when we did,
Here among the most savage of nights
We split
In two
And left.

Author's Note

yes this was inspired by Cyril Collard's masterpiece "savage nights". Let it stand in infamy and perpetuity. The film, not my poem.