Shadow To Shadow Revised

======================= Shadow to shadow, shade to shade In youth the Eden where I played was left bereft, destroyed, decayed, by trusts malignant masquerade Shadow to shadow, shade to shade Sweet grass dies in my fallow glade as opportunist needs invade and bleed the life from every blade Shadow to shadow, shade to shade First, victims surging song is brayed, then dirges of the helpless fade and urges pant their serenade Shadow to shadow, shade to shade Agendas I've arranged cascade to keep my motives undisplayed and cover cracks in my charade Shadow to shadow, shade to shade I've planted with my soiled spade slick seeds of doubt in hopes that they'd conceal the putrid plots I've laid Shadow to shadow, shade to shade My blighted past will be replayed and every bloom on whom I've preyed must lie now in the beds I've made =======================