Shadow-Self

A shadow-self, a doppelganger's ghost

Reflected in the mirror of my days

Pursues me now, illusionary host

Debauchee of sorrow my quest delays.

A stranger dwells within unknown to me

Flagellant and penitent of pain,

Questioning the spirit's right to be

The body's guide to an immortal reign.

Nothing do I see and nothing know.

O World whose beauty once so brightly shone

Reveal again the way, some light bestow

Before the shades are drawn and darkness grown

To vast dimensions swallowing the light,

My soul condemned to some eternal night.