Wrap my heart in rusted chains

It will burst forth

Seal it in an iron chest

It will burst forth

Banish it to the depths of the sea

It will burst forth

Place upon it a mask of any form

It will burst forth

Bury it beneath the mightiest oak

It will burst forth

Bind it with your most imaginative curse

It will burst forth

Coat it with gold and hang it on the wall

A trophy, to be hoarded away

It will burst forth

                                            - Chris Getz

A Song of the Hours

Green Fairy comes on ribboned toes
to me on sparkling Spring's bright morn
with whispered words of velvet love
Lay down with me this dawn, she moans

and glorious our comforts be..

No  darkness here at undrentide
When Undines call to pleasure's pool
Singing songs of mirth and pride
silken scales tempt drunken fools

Let passions be as waters freed..

Sweet Satyrs call from twilight woods
run with us my brothers bellow
Thorn and stone and hair and hooves
battles fought, and lovers proved

rest here beneath the naked moon..

Silent Midnight wakes me now
His time,this is, of grief and pain
I hold your shadowed heart with mine
and sing You songs to love again

    - Chris Getz

Even the fool knows

Christopher, even the fool knows

The owl can see your soul

His dusted cloak aglow this moonlit night

watching, with all the wisdom of the world

The owl can pierce your heart

For a thousand years

he has lived and hunted

The owl will teach you his ways

You are required only to sprout wings

and humble yourself to the fall

 Tell me patient hunter of souls

How is it to see into the core of my being

Tell me who and what you see

Patient owl, I fear we are together cursed

for,like you, I cannot shine the light of reason upon myself

no matter how many times I twist my head around

                            - Chris Getz

A single feather fell from the sky

I stand here staring from the edge

I hear your songs from deep below

The touch of trembling angel’s hands

While devil’s music growls and moans

I reach for you with silent heart

And cut myself on shattered words

Arabesque and shadow’s kiss

From far away so much is heard

-          Chris Getz

Secret Beast

This sullen night, with ring'ed  moon
shines light upon a secret place
My heart is steeled and iron clad
 to hold this tortured beast confined
There is but one sweet gilded key
You hold within Your precious hand
Deep within, this prison trembles
cries of claw and fur and blood
This cra'zed beast Ive locked away
begging now with crimson rage
To be set free, and seek You out
with fang revealed and grisley need
My beast in chains, this secret one
 to be released upon the world
There comes a day when key and lock
will break this cur'sed torturing
and hunting time will come again
 My secret beast, Your bloody lamb
                -Chris Getz