I had a dream
That was no dream
The sun was extinguished
The stars did wander darkling
Icy earth swung blind
And blackening
In the eternal space
Rayless and pathless in the moonless air
Morning came and went and brought no day
In dread men forgot their passion
In this their desolation and all hearts
Prayers for light were chilled and selfish
To look once more into each other's eyes
Fearful hope was all the world contained
Forests were set fire
Hour by hour
Extinguished with a crash
And all
Was
Black
They fell and faded and all was dark
They lay down and hid their eyes and wept
But in the blackness none could find rest
A meal was bought with blood
Gorging himself in restless gloom
No love was left
And all earth was but one thought
And that
Was
Death
The pang of famine fed upon their entrails
Men died
Their bones were tombless as their flesh
The meagre by the meagre were devoured
Till hunger clung them or the dropping dead
Morning came and went and brought no day
Prayers for light were chilled and selfish
Fearful hope was all the world contained
Extinguished with a crash
And all
Was
Black
Famine had written "Fiend
The world was void
A lump of death
A chaos of hard clay
Seasonless
Herbless
Treeless
Manless
Lifeless
Ceaseless
I See! (Icy)
DARKNESS
DARKNESS
DARKNESS
DARKNESS
DARKNESS
DARKNESS
DARKNESS
DARKNESS
DARKNESS
DARKNESS
DARKNESS
DARK