Shades on a Casement - Mechanical Poet

So now I’m left alone

Inside my dusky room

The shades are slightly grown

They grabble in the gloom

Glissading by the window-sill

Suspiring in the nightly still

They slowly ride the wooden floor

Entrapping scents from outdoor

Fantastic shapes

Are dancing on the velvet drapes

Grimacing in the reel

In endless fuss

They silently discuss

The secrets that I can’t reveal

But maybe they actually want to believe in The frail and illusory system they live in Maybe they think they are sovereign wights

Being the echoes of lights

Forevermore…