Aeons Elapse - AHAB

Strangely confused in my mind

Aeons elapsed in a blink of an eye

Slumber of utterly ravenous kind

Waters of forgetfulness: by and by …

Vast desire to drift off to sleep

Yet trembling at the thought of it

Lest there be some terrific dream

Like burning charcoal in a pit

Like hundredfold calamities

Most ghastly and ferocious

Like misery and monstrosities

Abandoned and forlorn

Bed myself in waves of disquietude

Bed myself in a multitude of gloom

Bed myself in pernicious solitude

Bed myself in foreboding doom

I feel gray and leafless

My roots concealed in morass

Dreary water lies intense and black

Skeleton arms waving to and fro

Crying to the silent waters of mercy

In the shrill and piercing accents

Of the most acute agony and despair

Bed myself in waves of disquietude

Bed myself in a multitude of gloom

Bed myself in pernicious solitude

Bed myself in foreboding doom