Shadows over me constantly
Hunting me like terrifying ghouls
Frightening me to the bones
With their obsession
I decided to abandon myself to the sense of defeat
A defeat due to my cruel fate of being invisible and negligible
Like a little sparkle of light destined to its descent into the abyss of darkness
And so, that was me
I wish extraordinary phantasmagorias would visit me in my dreams
But even that was impossible
So much was the misery of my realm of existence
Being a negligible creature destined to the cold wind of indifference
Even the possibility of falling in love with a chimaera and an illusion of mine was a failure
Destined to ominous omens
While the rays of the pale moonlight stroke my hair
I descended again into an eternal and deadly slumber
I couldn’t see anything but a total obscurity
I couldn’t hear but an absolute silence
Dim and dreadful shadows descended over me
And I couldn’t react or move in this ocean of emptiness
Defeated again and again by a sense of tragic frailty
I became a shadow myself
A shadow bound to a world of lies and deception
With the inability to flee away
Being hushed up in an abyss of oblivion
Being forsaken and abandoned to loneliness
I only found comfort in the numbness and lack of emotions
After striving to scream
I faded away like invisible stardust
Shadows over me grasped my heart to tear it apart
Feeling a fractured crystal in the inside
I couldn’t feel any pang or fear because I was myself anguish and dread
I became a ghost lingering in the world of death and darkness
Ethereal as I was, I wandered like a frightful spirit of the night
Chasing every spark of light I could seize, in vain
For I was doomed to the realm of darkness and oblivion.
Elisabetta