The Achromatic Road - Wormwood

A stark grey world appears before his eyes

Like a melancholic whisper fading in the wind

Ashen daylight thickens for each painful step

To fall asleep just to wake up to a dying world

Visions of that vibrant, opulent field

Her erstwhile writings, now a distant memory

I yearn to fuse with this cold earth

I beg to return to a state of worth

In oceans of rust and decay I swim

On this lurid path I sing my final hymn

Sisyphean cycles and sulphurous skies

I yearn to die but I am being denied

Derelict monuments forgotten by mankind

The sky has lost its meaning and lo, the sun is now blind

To wander this world-wide cenotaph forever

Misery is the only light in this endeavour