Corporeal symptoms of influence Proliferate and beset the unwatchful And the unstudied night waits Malevolent and conspiring Proximal To the living mind’s accomplice A corrupt nostalgia Nourish your dread, quiet sentinel Submit to the passage of no finality Stand adjacent to the halls of obscurity Assailed by perplexing cacophony Last declension No paths to follow Apparitions conduct their transparency Fielding the vague recollections Bearing gifts of nauseous opacity Perfect corruption intangible Memory at night is a subtlety Rain pattering on the canopies Of collective disquiet Old doubt flung careless To the certitude that kept you Bliss came Into existence Solely to unravel