1. THROUGH SHADED WAYS

I’ve already lost
The knowledge of myself
Between
Melancholy and death
Condition
Of shadow and doubt
A thousand years
As one day

Through shaded ways
And the world grew
Dark before mine eyes
And life departed from my path

I feel that a shadow
Gathers over my brain
Oppressed me like a spell
Appalled senses
When I could no longer
Hide it from my soul
For the hours of my happiness are past
And Joy is not gathered twice in a life

I kept no reckoning of time or place
And the stars of my fate faded away
The earth grew dark
And hovered above us
And life departed from our path

I’ve already lost
The knowledge of myself
Between
Melancholy and death
Condition
Of shadow and doubt
A thousand years
As one day

Through shaded ways
And the world grew
Dark before mine eyes
And life departed from my path

Through shaded ways
Like a wilderness of dreams
The finger of Death
Is upon my chest