Alchemisland

Unwanted dreams of tragedies, screaming widows

Men hanged from pepper trees, minnows teasing

Flesh from shamed maidens drowned, stoneladen

A memorial, a memento mori for a senior stonemason to pave

A stone that will stay, for another day to read my name

All of life was more than a game

I came to know that all too late

Too much time wasted, too much rage

Never enough affection displayed

I see that now, my mind invaded with death

Pervaded with images, I wept for regret

Swept off the deck of the ship of destiny

I am the rejected and dejected

Delecting in sex and vile suggestion

I could scarcely digest myself

But I cannot suspect myself too readily

I am sick but command self respect

I feel only a little and that much is too hectic

Hexes begin penetrating, passing my protective spells

There is no one now to help me, I harken to a shell

My ear hearing only hell.