Blushing skin is whispering

slight of tongue, can kill so softly

Velvet lips sing lullabies

so satin sleek but still so costly

Knees weaken crumble and fall

Mere mortals she's had them all

This gift of sight

this glorious blight



[Chorus:]

Fireflies

close your eyes

They flicker dim then die

not true stars just fading lies

(Fireflies close your eyes

Dancing so sweetly by

then disappearing with a sigh)



Far too easily distracted

by this wretched curse

I'm enticed and so attracted

bait and trap me, perhaps worse

Jade brilliance emerald lies

Each glimmer must fade and die

This gift of sight

this glorious blight



I don't want these distractions

no compromise for fractions

Diminish these subtractions

false lights are just refractions