A Waltz Perverse - Ophis

Sleep came

Like an ornery guest

Came late, left early

And brought bad company

Within the wellless keep of Somnus

Ghostlike memories arise from the moat

The vast ballroom is a courtyard

Figures sway in abussic grace

Sleepless in sleep

Infernal revenants

They scream, accuse

Insane

Visions from the looking glass

Bear a truth obscene

A sick libertto

And here they speak

The silent dead

They echo through the labyrinth

They stare in through the windows

Towering fears

Ethics reversed

In morbid choreography

Inverted lights flicker

Mimetic landscapes

Dissonant chords

All out of measure

An ensemble defunct

Sleepless in sleep

Infernal revenants

They scream, accuse

Insane

As daylight draws

The music ends

But the silence is not real

I know they will return