Transfigured Heart - Ghost Twin

I saw where he kept it quite by accident

In a secret compartment

Behind a framed navel chart

If I bide my time until the

Whole house falls silent

Have night hide my face if not

The terrible beat of my wanton

Indiscreet human heart

Fierce echo the halls as the four chambers

Pound.

Hard to believe the whole city

Won’t wake with that sound

Nothing in nature can ever compare to this

Empyreal spiral of opaline gold

Impossible still that my freemason uncle

Somehow had this hidden away

But its there and I must have a look

At least now that I know

Letting the blue velvet gently unfold

Revealing a sparkling unicorn’s horn

Ah my body aches with the fever to touch

Knowing full well that to touch

On the surface is never enough

Finding a corner where the oak-panelled

Wall meets the rococo desk

Bracing the horn which burns and

Chills me equally and with leverage now

Pressed through my breast

How serene a heart cleft!