Dear rainbow heart angelfish, on the day that you departed
From the mountain I came down incomplete and broken-hearted
From Hyde's fountain I did drink poison waters just to know your pain
And from then on began to sink at ego's altar on the plain

A loving totem did I fashion for your journey through the night
But then a fatal puppet passion grew from the stupor of that brew
You could not see through my disguise, nor I
And so mistook the likeness for the true

Heedlessly I groomed you for to run the perilous race
In vain your sleek lines I did shine, a tender trap indeed
What a laugh to think that you must need that fear to face
Or should be subject to the treachery of its pace

The lesson I had thought to teach by now was lost on you
And who made who? Did I leave you? Even I no longer knew
If you would ride that coach I'd built or simply fly away
While I, enamored of my craft, thought only of the play

Thus in Bedlam's limbo I was throne and would be king
Of the keepers and the kept, loony tunes we sang and danced
In chains the princess wept; silent tears of broken wings
And when I found that likewise bound was I to this mad ward
My head bent down forsook that crown to further that accord
If I should die that you might live what difference would it make
That no longer you and I but we as one, oh to long for such estate
If you weren't happy could I have been? I agreed to your escape

The time had come, the watchman slept, and to the river's edge I crept
Clutching you firmly in my grasp as that custom coffin barque I'd made
And did launch but where were you? Free to fly that promise kept
As if my assent would make it so, or suffered yet to take the test.

Then the Captain soon appeared in the resonance of Heaven's cheer
He came by way of firm reply an holy pledge to ratify
I saw Him standing at the helm as his lustrous ship sailed in
Indulging me my useless attempt to teach you, angelfish, to swim
Over the thorny thicket in the way the breakers rolled, and I
Unmindfully aloof from the labyrinthian course and dry
Still felt bound to steer you through, in my deluded sacrificial try

Without warning from my grasp you were pulled by some unseen Hand
Down the fall I watched you plunge, pathos pulled me in your wake
And at the bottom in the settling pool I searched for you among the pairs
Of the many divers fish that schooled in the in muddy morass there
Belly up in the shallow end I spied a rainbow colored angel fake
But where were you my only friend? Too late I apprehended my mistake
And as I held it up I cried - "forgive this madman's foolish slight!"
Then settled into the pool to wait in bonds of mud for the lonely night
I closed my eyes and dreamed of you and the coming of your Light