Edgar

Brilliant, brilliant broken man
Painting vivid images
With tantalizing word and phrase
Dazzling our hearts and minds
With lines that flow and ebb
With such fluidity

Brilliant, brilliant broken man
Take us to the heights of terror
Telltale heartbeats 'neath a floor
Take us to the depths of sorrow
With simple phrase of "Nevermore"
Languid lines, fraught with feeling
Leave us ever wanting more

Brilliant, brilliant broken man
Brought us tales of love undaunted
Perfect loves end tragically
Leaving us with memories haunted
By fair maiden, Annabel Lee
Perfect, tragic love undaunted
Lying by the sounding sea

Exiting this earthly hell

You, who left us all too soon
What tales had you yet to tell

Were there more glad tales of yore

Or Raven from Plutonian shore
To hold me raptly in your spell
So shall I ponder, ever more

Brilliant, brilliant broken man