Lost inside a shadowed forest,

        hearing sighs of love's lament,

by the gray and moaning waters,

        hoping soon that I will wake...

From this sleep, since I last saw you,

        darkest eyes invade my soul,

phantom dreams swirl all about me,

       spindly fingers push me deeper,

In the breatheless black of nowhere,

       pulse of life is fading fast,

I shall fall into the chasm,

       where a thousand souls have passed.