Dear Victor / Burn the Laboratory

Dear Victor, sweet Victor, I pray this finds you well
Please know that we miss you much more than words can tell
Are you consumed with study, your thoughts a world away
From all of those who love you and hope for word each day?
I know your passion’s fury, the dream you must pursue
I only ask for compromise
Please realize, my dream begins with you
Elizabeth, it pains me so to have to keep this secret from you
I’m so ashamed that this is all my many months of work have come to
How I long to feel your warm embrace
And kill this failure’s poison taste
Dear Victor, please answer
With words that reassure
I have no words to soothe her…
My heart clings to memories, yet longs for something more
And no strength to find them now
Where is the man who held me, who made me feel his fire
But does your silence prove it’s true?
I’ve lost you to your only true desire!
Another man would gladly nestle in her loving arms forever
Dear Victor…
And here I am, alone and lost, inside a foolish failed endeavour
Have I gone where no man should dare go?
What are you keeping from me?
Every dream I seek, just beyond my reach
What is missing, what is wrong?
Letters from Elizabeth, my father, Henry…
Why did I shut them out so?
Was it indifference… or shame?
Dear Victor, without you our house is not a home
Dear Victor… return to us
I miss you so, I need you so
You must never know…
I’m…alive!!!
Is it possible that wretched beast is capable of learning?
Have I left my greatest work and all my dreams behind me burning?!
I’ve done what I must, back to ash and dust!
That which never should have lived!