Gethsemane

The evening swallows the last light
And from out of the incarnadine
Forlornness creeps into my mind
Where doubt dwells
The light is dreaming of reincarnation,
The night is dropping through the window pane
And a cruel invisible chain
Enervates me.

And the river tears me down
And the waves clash over me
I floating down, sad and slowly
Home to my Gethsemane
Beside the life I'm living now
There is another one that could have been
A brighter one i've never seen
A paradise
Thoughts wither like autumn leaves
Full of sorrow they fall off from me
Fall with my tears, my sanity
Into the river.

And the river tears me down
And the waves clash over me
I floating down, sad and slow
Home to my Gethsemane
My soul is haunted by wolves
And is ravened mercilessly
In the last eclipse I can guess
Where the river ends.