PROFILE PICTURE: The Mummy Man from Demashitaa! PowerPuff Girls Z meets Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle.

I just thought of something... Mousy-san = Dark. Hehehe...

THE RANDOM LOVE QUOTES ZONE THING:

Because love is neither good nor bad, it's both. ~Me

Love isn't black or white, it's different shades of gray. ~Me

"What's worse? Love or hate?" "... If you want to know the answer, look it up on google." ~Me and a teacher I once had.

"Is love good or bad?" "Shut up and eat your lunch." ~A friend and Me

"To love is to hate, and to hate is to love." "That doesn't make any sense." "Exactly." ~Me and my brother

"What's the opposite of right?" "Love." "How's that even possible?" "It has four letters and starts with an 'L'." ~My brother and Me. The real answer was left.

To love is to share one's soul with someone, only to have it crushed to oblivion by said person. ~Me

"I'll never fall in love!" "Why not?" "It's unhealthy." ~Me and my dad when I was six or something.

"What's the greatest love of all?" "My love for books." ~A friend and Me

"Love is fleeting." "So is my attention span." ~A friend and Me

"I love you!" "Do I look like I care?" ~Conversation

"Love can't be seen, only felt." "Like hell that's true, I see it right there! :points at random couple:" ~A friend and Me

"Oh, Link! You came to save me!" "What are you doing on my horse? Get off!" ~A conversation my brothers invented between Ilia and Link from Twilight Princess.

I hate love. Love hates me. We have a mutual disrespect for each other. It's all good. ~Me

Love is blinding, thus all people in love are handicapped. ~Guy in my class

Love is like insomnia. No wait! It's the cause of insomnia! ~Me

Yes, I have a low opinion on love. Your point? ~Me

Love is a hell-pit in which we look up, hoping to see the light, when most of the time, all we see is darkness. ~Me

I just realized I have an extremely low opinion on love. Am I melodramatic? Yes. And I cynical and sarcastic? Yes. Do I care? Not really. Do I laugh at people who believe in love at first sight? All the time. ~Me

The Quotes, Sayings, Riddles, and Whatnot Zone:

Movie/Book/Anime/Manga/Whatever related:

Here's another curse, may all your bacon burn! ~Calcifer, Howl's Moving Castle

Don't mess with me, I'm a master of Kick-Your-Butt Fu! ~Guy, Prank Patrol

People these days are so unreliable. ~The Joker, The Dark Knight

So then I was like "Avada Kedavra!" And then he was like :dead: ~Voldemort

Molly Weasly and that time she called Bellatrix Lestrange a bitch (and Harry does some stuff too) ~No idea, but it was a drawing of a Harry Potter cover.

Snape's on a plane ~No idea, but it was one of those movie poster things.

I'm a Goffy Goober! (ROCK!) ~Spongebob, Spongebob Squarepants the Movie

I'm ugly, and I'm proud! ~Spongebob, Spongebob Squarepants

Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly, that everyone died. The end! ~Patrick Star, Spongebob Squarepants

Now that we're men! We've got facial hair. Now that we're men! I change my underwear. ~Spongebob and Patrick, Spongebob Squarepants the Movie

"You call that a mustach? I thought that was leftover salad stuck to your upper lip. :rips off seaweed: This is what a real mustach looks like! :grows mustach:" "Are you a mermaid?" ~Denis and Patrick, Spongebob Squarepants the Movie

Hey, Raito. Wanna play Mario Golf Course? ~Ryuk, Death Note

Just because you're paraniod doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face. ~Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files

I laugh in the face of danger! Then I hide until it goes away. ~Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Woosh. Flop. ~Sidoh, Death Note

"The Stone of Chaos takes a lot out of the user." "But it's just a chaos emerald-" -BITCHSLAP- "IT'S CALLED THE STONE OF CHAOS." ~Zero and Knuckles, Final Fantasy Sonic X episode 6

Random quotes/sayings I found somewhere...:

When life gives you lemons, make grape juice. Then sit back and let the world wonder at how you did it.

Chuck Norris:

Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.

Chuck Norris sleeps with a pillow under his gun.

Me and friends moments:

"If I say 'I'm lying,' which am I saying? The truth or a lie?" "Not this again..." ~Me & my brother

What's the opposite of right? Left or wrong? ~My brother.

"So what do you think of my dance?" "Are you sure you want to know?" ~Someone & Me

"You're not nice!" "I know." ~My brother & Me

"Okay, we're going to need four papers each and three pencils." "Why do we need three pencils? There's only two of us." "... Because the third pencil can be the god." ~Miralith & Me

"Why are we doing this again?" "You know, I have no idea." ~Me & Miralith

Please kill me. Right now. ~Me

"Do you know what I'm talking about?" "No." "Me neither." ~Conversation that happens too often between me and... Anyone, really.

El Randissimo, as in... The Random One? ~El-Randissimo

Is change such a bad thing? Yes, yes it is. ~Me

Hey, if you want me to botch up your poetry, just give me a call. ~Me

Any moment now, he's going to snap. Any minute now... ~Me (By the way, he didn't snap.)

"I Zombie. You Zombie. We all Zombie." "We Zombie!" ~Miralith & Me (We zombies in the morning.)

Pass me more yellow stuff. ~Brother (He meant 'pass me the chow mein.)

"Pass me your fortune." "I ate it." "No, not the cookie, the paper." "Yeah, I ate it." ~Me & my brother. (He didn't actually eat it, but I believed him for a second there...)

You want to know why I turn on my alarm clock during the weekend? Just to get the satisfaction of turning it off and going back to sleep. ~Me

Yo mamma so stupid she played memory games with a squirrel and the squirrel won. ~El-Randissimo

"I like Justice." "Oh really? What kind of Justice?" "The Near kind of Justice." -LE GASP!- ~El-Randissimo & TheLetterM

"Isn't that shocking?" "No, not really." ~Friend & Me

Fortune cookie:

You are talented with your hands. ~(My brother got that.)

Stuff I found funny:

Warning: Trespassers will be shot. Warning: Survivors will be shot again.

It's tourist season, so why can't I shoot them?

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. On the contrary, that makes them twice as determined to find you.

If you can’t beat them, join them. If you can’t join them, bribe them. If you can’t bribe them, blackmail them. And if you can't blackmail them... Well, you're pretty much screwed.

I don’t suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

I'm a bomb technician. If you see me running, try to keep up.

The answer to life is 42. Deal with it.

You laugh because I'm different. I cry because you're all the same.

Sushine is said to be happiness, rain is said to be sadness. But put them together, and you get a rainbow.

THE MORE ABOUT ME SECTION:

Physical description:

-Name: You may call me Domini-chan, Domini-kun, Domini, and Yeesh. But I suggest you call me -Saddo-.

-Age: I'm 110. How is that possible? Very simple. But I don't have to tell you. So I won't.

-Other: I speak French. No, I mean I speak French fluently.

Mental description: I think I'm mental.

If you looked at my favourite stories, you will have noticed they're all romances. Although I think I have one or two that aren't...

I'm sort of against giving a title to a chapter and giving VERY obvious titles to a story. Example: I forgot my sneakers in Dimension X. DEAD GIVE AWAY TO THE END OF THE STORY.

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. IT DOES NOT EXIST. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT IS JUST THE EXCUSE WE GIVE TO PHYSICAL ATTRACTION. Which is why people fall for personality AFTER. In other words, I'm a thorough love-at-first-sight NONE believer. Deal with it.

I love music. I can listen to the same song over and over for hours on end. My family and friends can testify as witnesses to that.

I actually prefer shojo-ai over yaoi.

Please Read This

I'm the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I'm a lesbian.
I'm the prostitute working in the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I'm the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents that buried our daughter long before her time.
I'm the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I'm the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
I'm one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will be able to walk again.
I'm not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the Realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I'm the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I'm the mother who is not allowed to even visit the child I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says that I'm an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I'm the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out that my abusive partner is also a woman.
I'm the domestic-violence survivor who had no support system to turn to because I'm a male.
I'm the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I'm the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I'm the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized that I was transsexual.
I'm the person feeling guilty because I think I can be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.
I'm the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to "my kind".
I'm the person who has to hide what this world needs the most, Love.
I'm the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.

If you also think that homophobia is wrong then please, re-post this on your profile.

~xXx~Do your part to end it~xXx~

For people that hate stereotypes: If you think people should just shut up and stop, put this on your profile. (BOLD the ones you are.)

I'm SKINNY, so I MUST be anorexic.

I'm EMO, so I MUST cut my wrists.

I'm a NEGRO so I MUST carry a gun.

I'm BLONDE, so I MUST be a ditz.

I'm JAMAICAN so I MUST smoke weed.

I'm HAITIAN so I MUST eat cats.

I'm ASIAN, so I MUST be sexy.

I'm JEWISH, so I MUST be greedy.

I'm GAY, so I MUST have AIDS.

I'm a LESBIAN, so I MUST have a sex-tape.

I'm ARAB, so I MUST be a terrorist.

I SPEAK MY MIND, so I MUST be a bitch.

I'm a GAY RIGHTS SUPPORTER, so I WILL go to hell.

I'm a CHRISTIAN, so I MUST think gay people should go to hell.

I'm RELIGIOUS, so I MUST shove my beliefs down your throat.

I'm ATHEIST so I MUST hate the world.

I don't have a RELIGION, so I MUST be evil and have no morals.

I'm REPUBLICAN, so I MUST not care about poor people.

I'm DEMOCRAT, so I MUST not believe in being responsible.

I am LIBERAL, so I MUST be gay.

I'm SOUTHERN, so I MUST be white trash.

I TAKE (or used to take) ANTI-DEPRESSANTS, so I MUST be crazy.

I'm a GUY, so I MUST only want to get into your pants.

I'm IRISH, so I MUST have a bad drinking problem.

I'm INDIAN, so I MUST own a convenient store.

I'm NATIVE AMERICAN, so I MUST dance around a fire screaming like a savage.

I'm a CHEERLEADER, so I MUST be a whore.

I'm a DANCER, so I MUST be stupid, stuck up, and a whore.

I wear SKIRTS a lot, so I MUST be a slut.

I'm a PUNK, so I MUST do drugs.

I'm RICH, so I MUST be a conceited snob.

I wear BLACK, so I MUST be a goth or emo.

I'm a WHITE GIRL, so I MUST be a nagging, steal-your-money kind of girlfriend.

I'm CUBAN, so I MUST spend my spare time rolling cigars.

I'm NOT A VIRGIN, so I MUST be easy.

I FELL IN LOVE WITH A MARRIED MAN, so I MUST be a home-wrecking whore.

I'm a TEENAGE MOM, so I MUST be an irresponsible slut.

I'm POLISH, so I MUST wear my socks with my sandals.

I'm ITALIAN, so I MUST have a "big one".

I'm EGYPTIAN, so I MUST be a terrorist.

I'm PRETTY, so I MUST not be a virgin.

I HAVE STRAIGHT A'S, so I MUST have no social life.

I DYE MY HAIR CRAZY COLORS, so I MUST be looking for attention.

I DRESS IN UNUSUAL WAYS so I MUST be looking for attention.

I'm INTO THEATER & ART AND AM A MALE, so I MUST be a homosexual.

I'm a VEGETARIAN, so I MUST be a crazy political activist.

I HAVE A BUNCH OF GUY FRIENDS, so I MUST be fucking them all.

I HAVE A BUNCH OF GIRLS WHO ARE FRIENDS, so I MUST be a player.

I have BIG BOOBS, so I MUST be a hoe.

I'm COLOMBIAN, so I MUST be a drug dealer.

I WEAR WHAT I WANT, so I MUST be a poser.

I'm RUSSIAN, so I MUST be cool and thats how Russians roll.

I'm GERMAN, so I MUST be a Nazi.

I hang out with GAYS, so I must be GAY TOO.

I'm BRAZILIAN, so I MUST have a big butt.

I'm PUERTO RICAN, so I MUST look good and be conceited.

I'm SALVADORIAN, so I MUST be in MS 13.

I'm POLISH, so I MUST be greedy.

I'm HAWAIIAN so I MUST be lazy.

I'm PERUVIAN, so I MUST like llamas.

I'm a STONER so I MUST be going in the wrong direction.

I'm a VIRGIN so I MUST be prude.

I'm STRAIGHT EDGE so I must be violent.

I'm a FEMALE GAMER, so I MUST be ugly.

I'm BLACK so I MUST love fried chicken and kool-aid.

I'm a GIRL who actually EATS LUNCH, so I MUST be fat.

I'm SINGLE so I MUST be ugly.

I'm a SKATER so I MUST do weed and steal stuff.

I'm a PUNK so I MUST only wear black and date only other punks.

I'm ASIAN so I MUST be a nerd that does homework 24/7.

I'm CHRISTIAN so I MUST hate homosexuals.

I'm MIXED so I MUST be screwed up.

I'm MUSLIM so I MUST be a terrorist.

I'm IN A BAND, so I MUST be a dork.

I'm BLACK so I MUST believe JESUS WUZ A BROTHA.

I'm MORMON so I MUST be perfect.

I'm WHITE AND HAVE BLACK FRIENDS so I MUST think I'm black.

I'm GOTH so I MUST worship the devil.

I'm HISPANIC, so I MUST be dirty.

I'm NOT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, so I MUST be a loser.

I'm OVERWEIGHT so I MUST have a problem with self control.

I'm PREPPY so I MUST shun those who don't wear Abercrombie & Hollister.

I'm ON A DANCE TEAM so I MUST be stupid, stuck up, and a whore.

I'm YOUNG so I MUST be naive.

I'm MEXICAN so I MUST have hopped the border.

I GOT A CAR FOR MY BIRTHDAY so I MUST be a spoiled brat.

I'm BLACK so I MUST love watermelons.

I'm BISEXUAL so I MUST think every person I see is hot.

I'm an ASIAN GUY so I MUST have a small penis.

I'm a GUY CHEERLEADER so I MUST be gay.

I'm a PREP so I MUST be rich.

I DON'T LIKE THE SUN so I MUST be an albino.

I have a lot of FRIENDS so I MUST love to drink and party.

I WEAR TIGHT PANTS AND AM A MALE so I MUST be emo.

I COULDN'T HURT A FLY so I MUST be a pussy.

I SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS so I MUST fit in with everyone.

I hang out with teenage drinkers and smokers so I MUST smoke and drink too.

I have ARTISTIC TALENT so I MUST think little of those who don't.

I don't like to be in a BIG GROUP so I MUST be anti-social.

I have a DIFFERENT SENSE OF HUMOR so I MUST be crazy.

I tell people OFF,so I MUST be an over controlling bitch.

My hair gets GREASY a lot so I MUST have no hygiene skills.

I'm DEFENSIVE so I MUST be over controlling and a bitch.

I'm a NUDIST so I MUST want everyone to see my boobs.

I read COMICS so I MUST be a loser.

I hang out with a FORMER PROSTITUTE so I MUST be a whore myself.

I'm TEXAN so I MUST ride a horse.

I’m a CROSSDRESSER so I must be homosexual.

I draw ANIME so I MUST be a freak.

I am a FANGIRL so I MUST be a crazy, obsessed stalker.

I WATCH PORN so I MUST be perverted.

I'm an ONLY CHILD so I MUST be spoiled.

I'm INTELLIGENT so I MUST be weak.

I am AMERICAN so I MUST be obese, loud-mouthed and arrogant.

I'm WELSH so I MUST love sheep.

I'm SCOTTISH so I MUST have ginger hair and wear a skirt. (It's actually called a kilt.)

I’m a YOUNG WRITER so I MUST be emo.

I’m CANADIAN so I MUST talk with a funny accent.

I'm a GUY so I MUST ditch my pregnant girlfriend.

I'm CANADIAN so I MUST love hockey and beavers.

I'm DISABLED so I MUST be on Welfare.

I'm a FEMINIST so I MUST have a problem with sexuality and I want to castrate every man on the earth.

I'm a TEENAGER so I MUST have a STEREOTYPE.

I WEAR A BIG SUNHAT when I go outside so I MUST be stupid.

I like BLOOD so I must be a VAMPIRE.

I'm an ALBINO so I MUST be an evil person with mental abilities and is a murderer.

I'm ENGLISH so I MUST speak with either a cockney or a posh accent, love tea and cricket, and have bad teeth.

I’m WHITE so I MUST be responsible for everything going wrong on the planet: past, present, and future.

I don't like YAOI or YURI so I MUST be a homophobe.

I’m not the most POPULAR person in school so I MUST be a loser.

I care about the ENVIRONMENT so I MUST be a tree hugging hippy.

I have a FAN CHARACTER so I MUST be an annoying Mary-sue.

I CHAT so I MUST be having cyber sex.

I'm PAGAN so I MUST sacrifice babies and drink the blood of virgins.

I'm PAGAN so I MUST worship Satan.

I'm CONSERVATIVE so I MUST be against Abortion.

I'm SWEDISH so I MUST be a tall, blond, blue-eyed lesbian.

I'm a LESBIAN so I MUST want to get with every single girl that I see.

I like CARTOONS so I MUST be irresponisble.

I like READING so I MUST be a loner.

I have my OWN spiritual ideology; therefore I MUST be wrong or misguided.

I am WICCAN so I MUST be a satanist.

I DISAGREE with my government so I MUST be a terrorist.

I am a WITCH so I MUST be an old hag and fly on a broomstick.

I love YAOI and I'm a guy so I MUST be GAY.

I'm a PERSON so I MUST be labelled.

I DON'T CURSE so I MUST be an outcast.

I like GAMES, ANIME & COMICS so I MUST be childish.

I'm SWEDISH, therefore I MUST be WHITE.

I SPOT GRAMMATICAL ERRORS so I MUST be a pedantic bastard.

I'm GOTHIC so I MUST be mean.

I’m STRONG so I MUST be stupid.

I'm Australian so I MUST hunt crocodiles and talk to kangaroos.

I go to RENFAIRES so I MUST talk weird, be a loser, and not be up with the times.

I’m GAY so I’m after EVERY straight guy around.

I don’t want a BOYFRIEND so I MUST be lesbian.

I don't want a GIRLFRIEND so I MUST be gay.

I'm NOT CHRISTIAN so I MUST just need converting.

I LOVE MARCHING BANDS so I MUST be a friendless freak.

I DRINK and SMOKE so I MUST have no life.

I am friends with a CUTTER so I MUST be a cutter too.

I cry easily so I MUST be a wimp.

I can't help POINTING OUT MISTAKES so I MUST be an over-controlling perfectionist.

I'm a PERFECTIONIST so I MUST check everything ten times, then burst into tears at one mistake.

I DON’T LIKE to talk about my personal life so I MUST be having problems.

I like FIRE so I must be an arsonist.

I like YURI and I'm a girl so I MUST be a lesbian.

I DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD so I MUST be stupid and a follower of Satan.

I think I can MAKE A DIFFERENCE so I MUST be delusional.

I'm ASEXUAL so I MUST think none of you are good enough for me.

I'm CANADIEN so I MUST say 'Eh?' at the end of every sentence I speak.

I'm CANADIEN so I MUST eat everything with maple syrup, ride polar bears to school, love beavers, and live in an igloo.

I'm ITALIEN so I MUST only eat and like pizza and pasta.

I'm ASIAN so I MUST not know how to drive.

98 percent of teenagers do or has tried smoking pot. I'm one of the 2 percent who hasn't.

98 percent of teens do or has tried smoking pot. If you're part of the 2 percent that hasn't, shut up about it. We are tired of hearing you nag.

I have tried, and still try to slam a revolving door.

I think my house is haunted and that a ghost is stalking me.

I know someone who should spontaniously combust, burn to death in a fire, be fed to hungry lions, or die any other form of painful death. Harada Risa. Hey! Idea for the Bashing!

I repeatedly listen to the same song over and over again because I love it.

I know our society is moving in the wrong direction.

I'm part of the .0000001 percent of people who don't have a MySpace.

I've wished I could go into a book and strangle some of the characters for being so incredibly dumb.

I love rain.

I think it's stupid that girls are associated with the colour pink.

I have forgotten my name while introducing myself.

If you just read this whole long list of random facts about me, and are now wondering why the hell you did that, go see a therapist.

How to Tell if You're a Writer

-If you talk to yourself.
-If you talk to yourself about talking to yourself. (i.e. ‘I wonder why I talk to myself so much?’)
-If, when you talk to yourself, you sometimes speak as if talking to another person. (i.e. ‘Okay, so have you ever noticed that the word ‘deliver’ could mean removing someone’s liver?’)
-If, after uttering a profound piece of wisdom like that above, you stare at the cookie in your hand in awe and say, ‘Wow, this is good stuff for sugar highs!’
-If you live off of sugar and caffeine.
-If people start to notice that you tend to check your e-mail every day for a week, then suddenly disappear off the face of the planet.
-If your e-mails tend to be pages long and incredibly random.
-If, when replying to someone else’s e-mail, you are sometimes so random that you fail to address the original message altogether.
-If you tend to collect the Bic Stics people leave lying around, kind of like picking pennies off the ground.
-If, no matter where you are in your room, you never have to so much as get up to reach a pen/pencil and paper.
-If the letters are starting to wear off on the keys of your keyboard.
-If people think you might have A.D.D. (Attention Deficiency Disorder.)
-If you think it’d be cool to have A.D.D.
-If you start constantly talking in third person, past tense.
-If you think about making lists like this, and start giggling for no ‘apparent’ reason.
-If your friends don’t even bother to look funny at you anymore when you start giggling for no apparent reason.
-And finally, the number one way to tell if you’re a good writer: you failed English 101

Well, there you go. That's all there is folks. For the moment. By the way, I'm editing my stories. So watch out for them.

EDITED:

July 26/2008: Where Is Your Heart? ; The Bashing Of Harada Risa: Chapter 1, 3

August 08/2008: Caring: deleted ; Dear Sister Dear: deleted ; Infatuation: deleted ; Kiss of the Rose: deleted ; Losses and Gains: deleted ; Secluded: deleted ; Tension: deleted

August 13/2008: The Bashing Of Harada Risa: Chapter 4

August 14/2008: Kiss of a SandFlower: Chapter 1

LES DJINNS par Victor-Marie Hugo

Murs, ville,

Et port,

Asile

De mort,

Mer grise

Où brise

La brise ;

Tout dort.

Dans la plaine

Naît un bruit.

C'est l'haleine

De la nuit.

Elle brame

Comme une âme

Qu'une flamme

Toujours suit.

La voix plus haute

Semble un grelot. -

D'un nain qui saute

C'est le galop :

Il fuit, s'élance,

Puis en cadence

Sur un pied danse

Au bout d'un flot.

La rumeur approche ;

L'écho la redit.

C'est comme la cloche

D'un couvent maudit ; -

Comme un bruit de foule,

Qui tonne et qui roule,

Et tantôt s'écroule

Et tantôt grandit.

Dieu ! la voix sépulcrale

Des Djinns !... -Quel bruit ils font !

Fuyons sous la spirale

De l'escalier profond !

Déjà s'éteint ma lampe ;

Et l'ombre de la rampe,

Qui le long du mur rampe,

Monte jusqu'au plafond.

C'est l'essaim des Djinns qui passe,

Et tourbillonne en sifflant.

Les ifs, que leur vol fracasse,

Craquent comme un pin brûlant.

Leur troupeau, lourd et rapide

Volant dans l'espace vide,

Semble un nuage livide

Qui porte un éclair au flanc.

Ils sont tout près ! - Tenons fermée

Cette salle où nous les narguons.

Quel bruit dehors ! hideuse armée

De vampires et de dragons !

La poutre du toit descellée

Ploie ainsi qu'une herbe mouillée,

Et la vielle porte rouillée

Tremble, à déraciner ses gonds !

Cris de l'enfer ! voix qui hurle et qui pleure !

L'horrible essaim, poussé par l'aquilon,

Sans doute, ô ciel ! s'abat sur ma demeure.

Le mur fléchit sous le noir bataillon.

La maison crie et chancelle penchée,

Et l'on dirait que, du sol arrachée,

Ainsi qu'il chasse une feuille séchée,

Le vent la roule avec leur tourbillon !

Prophète ! si ta main me sauve

De ces impurs démons des soirs,

J'irais prosterner mon front chauve

Devant tes sacrés encensoirs !

Fais que sur ces portes fidèles

Meure leur souffle d'étincelles,

Et qu'en vain l'ongle de leurs ailes

Grince et crie à ces vitraux noirs !

Ils sont passés ! - Leur cohorte

S'envole et fuit, et leurs pieds

Cessent de battre ma porte

De leurs coups multipliés.

L'air est plein d'un bruit de chaînes,

Et dans les forêts prochaines,

Frissonnent tous les grands chênes,

Sous leur vol de feu pliés !

De leurs ailes lointaines

Le battement décroît,

Si confus dans les plaines,

Si faible que l'on croit

Ouïr la sauterelle

Crier d'une voix grêle,

Ou pétiller la grêle,

Sur le plomb d'un vieux toit.

D'étranges syllabes

Nous viennent encor ; -

Ainsi, des Arabes

Quand sonne le cor,

Un chant sur la grève,

Par instants s'élève,

Et l'enfant qui rêve

Fait des rêves d'or !

Les Djinns funèbres,

Fils du trépas,

Dans les ténèbres

Pressent leurs pas ;

Leur essaim gronde :

Ainsi, profonde,

Murmure une onde

Qu'on ne voit pas.

Ce bruit vague

Qui s'endort,

C'est la vague

Sur le bord ;

C'est la plainte

Presque éteinte

D'une sainte

Pour un mort.

On doute

La nuit...

J'écoute : -

Tout fuit,

Tout passe ;

L'espace

Efface

Le bruit.