The ancient and stormy evening My lean shade reveals My cadaverous aspect Germinating the seed of sclerosis My silent groaning smothered by nausea Grumbling lips swearing my grievous fate Panting breast praying for extinction Surrendered to suffering I was seized with fear Fettered to frustration my body sails Measured by the tides of a scarlet sea Built with tears which I once cried For every unfulfilled dream At last the colourless light bid farewell And the carriage of obscurity came to me A macabre shape stretched to me his hand And I held it of my own will