The curtain falls all around
To snuff out the rays
And I’m deprived of whit
Without reason, without verse

The accursed shade
It deafens and it blinds
Till I’m swallowed whole
By a raft of demons

As life rolls past
I bear all of its chatter
From below
Into the pit of my stomach

The curtain envelops
My unsightly bones
Sparing, the young
Of the morrow’s
Most ravenous of tides