Returned from a hibernal dream   No longer by my side   Voices fell like marble      Ripped from my embrace   Melinda reflected in shafts   Gone, all that would linger   Met the earth in silence   Red line round her neck      White face, haggard grin   This serenity painted death      Clenched fist from the beautiful pain   With a halo of bitter disease   Black paragon in lingering breath   Saw her fading, blank stare into me      Darkness reared its head   Took control, claiming my flesh   Tearing within the reeling haze   Piercing rage, perfect tantrum   Each and every one would die at my hand   Choking in warm ponds of blood      At last, weak and torn I went down   Drained from strength, flickering breath   Flanked and barred in destiny's end   Underneath with hope in laches   Came with the moon   The wayward in conscious state   Swathed in filth, any would betoken   Starlit shadows on the wall   Finally there to collect me   From the bowels of sin