27 April 2017 ~ The Howling of the Damned

For all who see and understand, allow

That they should take a sleepless vow, 

A measure of some solace, now, 

We pray that they will never keep;

To leave complacent atrophy and weep;

For those who heart-glad steep in mediocrity

In little deaths, they leave for some tranquility

And all of them that do not see, they somehow understand

Perhaps too late, that they have missed a lifetime in their sleep

And they in waking mourn amongst the howling of the damned