Noise and Silence

Beneath my mind the demon danced, He reaps away my brain With awkward sounds and sights untrue Not of the homely grain. It's party dim tonight I think , But things are moving all, I clearly see his evil spree, While from the cliff I fall. For long I fall, yet I reached not, The lowly plain recedes, Headlong I veer, it makes me steer Down to a small crevice. What will retrieve my dislodged frame? Those whom I knew have left, From somewhere sprang a sudden bang Reminds me I'm bereft. The clamour of a tavern reached My ears, I stand upright, What thing just screeched, I was bewitched By that carousing sight. I cannot hear the people speak, The gestures block my eyes, A humming sound does well redound To tell the same, same lies. I move my limbs, yet they refuse, Who stole the old, old bliss? Fixed and numb I stayed alone, The voices went amiss.