By and By

Dark is the night In faith's lost light Deep is the daze In this dark maze Sleep brings no rest In crazy fest Empty the feel In lusty thrills Gone far away Surreal end play Lost in lost tense Heavy lost sense Drifting with tides Of crested pride Sorry sad sights In loss of light Pride peoples form In murky norms Too late this brief Of gloomy grief The way is blocked By empty stock Endless the moans Of dying groans Strange voices hurl As madness swirls No escape then From where and when Even death shuns Our failing grunts Time now for time Mad echoes chime Love cannot reach Where nightmares beach By and by now Hope fades somehow Nothing to feel But empty deals Leon Enriquez 30 May 2016 Singapore