Ever so coyly the son submits to sleep this soil is made of flesh. - A sultry thought, the smell of rotten fruit Drunkenly black flies haw. Long abandoned are the rooms where we once dwelled Contours intrude and rack Immensely quiet and laden with loss Oh thorny this hour of grief Sunken, molten, sprawled in rot From dusty halls we hear a frozen gaze Gone, gone, gone beyond All together gone None, none, none, none Gone beyond Mutely wafting - a sense of times past Our weak hands burn and die Where silver spiders find our eyes