Despair's Waltz
This sickening waltz
resides in my skin
a twist of dreams and shadow
Dance
upon the fog
I am the shadow
Haunted in dreams
This moving melody
filled with anguish
Dance
upon the echoes
A maddening symphony
Consumed with illusions
This orchestration consumes
these fractured dreams
Dance
upon the souls
Sleep embraces
this surreal masquerade
a wretched hallucination
of feverish delusion
Dance
upon the night
A vortex of madness
Encompassing light
Revealing secrets
The end of whispers
Dance
upon the curse
Dance
the waltz of despair
©Charisse Van Horn 2023
