Eclipse

Beast of fire

Burn the bridges and dance in their ashes

Your flame is flickering like a candle

Do not fall into the Darkness

Bear your burning Crucifix with pride

The scars on your chest are a sacred sign

The embers in your eyes can burn the world

And heal it at the same time

Chaos erupted into a million star

And covered the world in darkness

Only your light, your flames will change the world

Set the clock right

On the path of eternity

You are the divine prophecy,

Since earth was created,

You were the reflection of the sun on its beautiful face,

The accursed gods, terrified that you might take their place,

Made you an offering to darkness

From that day

Eclipse became your birth

And the moon cast its shadow forever.

Maxwell O’Reilly

I am Prometheus

Adorned with tongues of eternal flame

God of Fire is my venerable name

I am fire that cannot be tamed

I am the light and warmth revered

I am the wrath and destruction feared

I am a Champion lauded and cheered

I gave my fiery essence to humankind

Defying the gods and chains that bind

To eternal torment I was confined

Eagles plucked my heart from my chest

Made my grave into their nest

To spend eternity in pain and unrest

I am Prometheus, dead ere my prime

My legend has endured throughout time

Written in myth, stories and elegant rhyme

Max O’Reilly

Death with Dignity

Romeo (Maxwell)

Ions had passed since the day we met

Though it was only a yesterday

The candle I lit has not extinguished yet

Though the wind had blown it away

My flames flicker ever weaker apart

From your sweet loving embrace

My soul longs to blissfully depart

Roaming around planets and space

To catch a Star that shined afar

To make the world in love with night

When you cut my heart into little stars

To adorn the face of heaven so bright

When I shall die, the garish sun

Will be jealous of my heavenly glow

You vowed that I am the only one

Your heart had worshiped ions ago

Love me still though am now a Star

Dead and buried in sweet scented Earth

My heart carried a million scar

The torment of your love was worth

The End was destined at my own hands

Freely I accept my fateful choice

I did what my dignity commands

Your objections will not silence my Voice

I chose to leave mortality behind

And soar high with angels divine

To my shattered heart to be kind

Free my soul from this feeble shrine

Maxwell O’Reilly

Forbidden Love

SHE

Away from him

I am like a ballerina rotating alone

Locked in her velvet music box

Dancing to the moonlight tune

ME

Away from her

I sit here in silence,

Just thinking of her

Holding my breath

For the next kiss

That will revive our tune

SHE

Away from him

I am suffocating with tears

Longing to reach out and touch him

When my hand touches the empty air

My hand falls

My heart breaks and dreams

That the next time I reach out

He will be there

To hold me

And we dance together

To the moonlight tune

ME

When I gaze into her eyes

I see the look of eternity there

When our lips meet

Tis the taste of heaven

SHE

Away from him

I am trapped

In this glass cage

It is a mirror

My lonely reflection

Is all I see

ME

Our love is a forbidden dream

Where a dream is a sin

Yet she dreams

Of me

Her blood is spilled

Because she loved Me

Maxwell O’Reilly

Child of Sin

Like a cherished Pale flower, he grew

Its petals were nipped before they blew

The trembling trees and songbirds knew

Winter was in the wind, on the morning dew

A child of love of a mortal who played with sin

With the goddess of love, cruel fates begin

A story of passion and death to slowly spin

A shattered rebellious soul caged within

Winter gave way to spring fresh and warm

When he was born, fashioned in a godlike form

Clouds burst; skies flashed into a raging storm

How did love into such betrayal transform  

Treachery flung her arrows pierced his heart

Shattered by deep convulsions rent apart

Ere his time he lay broken, soul longing to depart

Fate had ordained his death from the start

The golden hair shall never turn grey

Untimely snatched when time brings decay

Flowers decked the cold stone where he lay 

Resting in coffin on a cold wintery day

The songs are silent, hearts heavy and worn

Bereft eyes laden with tears, hopes forlorn  

When gods and mortal his passing mourn

His body is ephemeral, his soul is forever reborn

Maxwell O’Reilly

Goddess of the Hunt

The Wolf and the Moon

Poison lurks beneath dark waters

Roses burn in a crimson slaughter

The forest is still songbirds are silent

Lions hunker down no longer violent

The trees tremble, the blades of grass

In heavy shadows twirl and pass

Distant hills rock and shudder

Like a ship without a ruder

The horses neigh and prance

Dryads around the fire dance

A youth by the beautiful nymphs lured

The wrath of the gods he secured

An arrow cleaved its stealthy way

Into his heart, with glazing eyes he lay

Ready to embrace death, he stood

On the shore of lake Diana of the Wood

He heard her voice upon the storm

Air gushed around him and took ethereal form

The graceful nymphs, the deer, and the hound

She appeared, her head with roses crowned

My Goddess, he said with a trembling voice

For your pain, I will give you a choice

She said and extended her graceful hand

Your death was not what I have planned

He accepted the hand with a smile

This how salvation will be after a while

I chose to turn into a Wolf and lead the pack

The goddess was stunned, taken aback

My heart longs for the eternal hunt

For my indiscretion I will bear the brunt

I am the goddess of the hunt, so mote it be

You will lead the pack for whole eternity

A hunter loyal, fierce, and proud

With fangs and claws to be endowed

My eternal love, I will join you soon

That is why I howl to the moon

Maxwell O’Reilly

Goddess of Love

The Sun smiled sweetly to the silent rain
It whispered in drops my cloud will remain
It stirred the grass with a youthful touch
A maiden beside the lagoon she loves so much
She sang to her companion, the paling Moon
Wildflowers swayed around her like undulating dune
It washed the meadow in silver light
Envied the Sun and replaced its might
The rain touched the maiden cheek
Like a tear drop on a snowy peak
Her beauty unrivalled by the majestic Sun
The shimmering lights around her spun
Nursing a bleeding heart I lay beside the lagoon
Hoping my death will not come so soon
I, the shepherd, who was maimed and gored
My heart was ripped by the god’s jealous sword
When her touch awakened my drifting mind
To sweet desires I had left behind
I gazed upon the maiden and surprisingly saw
The goddess of love in her beauty and awe
Aphrodite, my savior from the dim
Underworld
My wings fluttered wildly and unfurled
My Blood mingled with her tears to become a flower
Lamentations for the god of youth in his final hour
Garden sown with my seed to germinate eternal love
Aphrodite changed into a white ethereal dove
Together we flew above the clouds into a dream
The symbol of love pure as it seems
I the mortal gave my blood to revive
The myth of love to endure and survive
My death is a winter bleak and cold
Nature’s is wailing in misery foretold
When I return to nature, spring begins anew
The cycle of love and loss is what remains true

Maxwell O’Reilly

Goddess of the Sea

Breath of the gods blowing my ship

Ever forward on this fateful trip

Drifting along with the mighty wave

Rolling and tossing in a watery grave

What fate was mine, what horrible blow

My ship capsized, who decreed this woe

I gasp for air to fill my burning lung

To a statue bust I have wildly clung

Memories float in my drifting mind

I have this miraculous statue designed

Her face from my own heart I engraved

Embedded with ice and fire, I braved

The storm and battled the rising tide

Maybe it would be best if I had died

I felt a faint breath, the statue stirred

A vision flashed before my eyes blurred

Imbued with the spirit of the gods it spoke

Before it curled like a plume of smoke

Around me and swallowed my spirit whole

I am Death, she said, I want your soul

Gladly, take it and end this intolerable pain

In your depths I will drown, never to rise again

Max O’Reilly

Phoenix

Eagle of majestic and sweeping wings

Beware of Death her arrows she flings
She is thirsty for your immortal blood
Her arrows fly like an overwhelming flood
Death has reaped the fruit of her deed
The Eagle’s heart began to bleed
His feathers bloodied with a fatal dart
He pulled the shaft from his quivering heart
He lay struck when the sun had set
Was Death weeping in awe and regret

He crawled into his weeping nest
That drank the blood of his bleeding chest
Where life once flourished is now a void
Youth and hope are now destroyed
His wings beat higher in glorious heaven
Where the tempest clouds are driven
A storm that soars high toward the sun
His spirit immortal, his breath is done
The tomb cannot bind his spirit no more
A reborn phoenix he will rise and soar

From ashes to light from the eternal dust
The wind around him whirled in a violent gust
The pyre is set ablaze by his fiery breath
In his presence there is no room for Death

Max O’Reilly

Fallen Angel

My wings unfurl with the colors of pearls

In my arms she dances and twirls

Her dark hair dims the dying sun

Night is born when the day is done

The silvery moon shines through her eyes

Passion burns me to ashes in the skies

Scattered like little stars upon the wind

I am to your sacrificial altar pinned

You prepare my shroud with ultimate care

I want to struggle yet do not even dare

You tempt me to taste your lips divine

You may imprison me, my soul cannot confine

In your grip my heart is burning to a cinder

You used my body for your kindling tinder

You bestowed upon me your sweet embrace

Banished my soul without a shimmering trace

To my everlasting kingdom I flew unconfined

By your chains in no mortal form enshrined

A fallen Angel resting in a glorious tomb

Which cruel god had decreed my youthful doom?

Max O’Reilly

Farewell to Ophelia

A maiden “Chaste as ice, pure as snow”
Whose lips had fire’s mystic glow
A flower drowned in a watery grave
Where daffodils and lilies wave
Her sweet body buried under misty dew
A reverie forlorn where wind never blew

She floats in my dreams like a water-lily leaf
I forbid my tears to fall I forbid my grief
Fiery words drowned by my anguished tears
Pain inside me that wounds and sears
Farewell Ophelia the sweet the pure
My heart can never your loss endure

Max O’Reilly

Farewell to Hamlet

(Prince Maxwell)

Adieu, “Now cracks a noble heart”

Innocence and joy begin to depart

Like a Star wrenched from the sky

It was time for the Sweet Prince to die

Flights of Angels sing him to his eternal rest

Death always takes the very best

Adieu Sweet Prince, good night

Angels will join him in his last flight

Welcome to Heaven where immortals are

His Soul had replaced the brightest Star

His heart adorned with love and joy combined

He left the pain and misery behind

Flowers covered the cold place

Where he lay adorned with heavenly grace

Max O’Reilly

Goddess of Death

Are you the Devil burrowing into my dreams

Are you the Seductress breaking my heart at the seams

Are you the wine dissolving sweetly into my blood

Turning my passion into a raging flood

My lust for you is an addiction to the sublime

I cannot express into either words or rhyme

An ecstasy when your sweet lips touched mine

A prophecy that emanated from doom or divine

You sealed my fate with a kiss a whisper still I

 surrender to you and lose my heart and will

Your breasts intoxicating as strongest wine

To your lustful thighs  I long and pine

Whisper your name softly my sweet concubine

I Spill my blood to color your majestic shrine

At last I can say your name without fear

The pain it brings is sweet yet so severe

You are Goddess of Death; I am your Slave

To be in love with you is foolish yet brave

Yet with every breath I call your name

You respond in kind and at last make your claim

Max O’Reilly

Encounter with Death

No shadows danced around my campfire

No candles were lit, no celestial choir

Trumpets were silent as a lonely grave

Drums muffled the march of the brave

I stood staring at the pallor of your face

There was no malevolence, there was no grace

Only hunger to consume my wretched soul

My breath utterly under your sweet control

You whispered, you moaned softly in my ear

In a soft kiss while you plunged your spear

Into my heart mocking my labored breath

You said with triumph: My name is Death

Max O’Reilly

Atonement

Adrift in the majestic turbulent sea

Waves raging like thunder, rained on me

The tide swept me in distant eerie song

Summoned me to sail to where I belong

Drifting far away from the craggy shore

The Beast inside me rage and roar

A mountain rose like an altar in sight

Beneath the clouds bathed in light

Was it Flames raging on its lofty peak?

Consuming me in the havoc it will wreak

Glowing embers around me sprouted flame

I heard her ethereal voice call my name

From the shadows I heard a mournful moan

I walked through darkness that chilled my bone

My heart quivers, in my soul struggles loom

Threatened by shadow of imminent doom

Darkness swallows me, a heart of stone

Beckons me for my earthly sins to atone

At her altar I lie naked and shed my blood

My Heart will burst like a pent-up a flood

Max O’Reilly

If I die tonight

If I die tonight

Adorned by Heaven’s flickering lights

When the Angels call me home

Wherever my spirits will roam

Don’t let your tears fall

I will be far away from it all

If I die tonight

On my tombstone I will alight

When the Angels begin to sing

My hands will turn into wings

I will soar high above the clouds

Rip apart my encompassing shrouds

I will emerge a god in a crimson light

A dragon slain by a mighty knight

A tide that swept you off your feet

A gentle breeze every time we meet

But when I will die tonight,

My heart extinguished in wretched plight

My journey is at last complete

It is just the End, bitter and Sweet

Max O’Reilly