A Dream of Poe - The Lament of Phaethon

I'm sundered
A thousand shards of what I ought to be
Scattered among umbrageous stars
Of ancient silence
And I'm exhausted, finally

I screamed to the universe
my venomous capitulation and frailty
Said it out loud among the stars
Said it in abject defiance
Exhausted, eternally

They keep eyeing me
chanting and singing songs of death
O, luminaries of the Great Void!
And despair sets in, and I break within
In my dreams, I make a funeral pyre
To all my hope and desire
And a march for Death, the ancient purifier

Life that grew within
Dissipates quietly into oblivion
From higher self to the lowly vermin
All embraced by my eschaton

Who will sing my story
The ruin of my love on the path of the spheres?
Over the aeons, over the vast expanse
Let these fragments speak of a former glory
While I, Phaethon, scatter in tears

"Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone"

"I would try, but try not, to release my heart."
In my dreams, I make a funeral pyre
To all my hope and desire
And a march for Death, the ancient purifier

Written by:
Paulo Pacheco

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