Her peril still rings
Through those smoldering ruins
Where I’ll never tread
With a vast
Arsenal of strength

She lingers at the stern
Barely forgotten
As the terrible scream
I dream to evade

“Where have you gone?”
Is her piercing refrain
That drives my conscience
To savor, each morsel of regret

“How could I?”
Larks only from within
As a traveling ghoul
In pursuit
Of each step I take