Lifeless

Mem'ry haunts me clearly
 The winter of my thirteenth year
 Wind moaned through headstones dreary
 A siren song only I could hear
 A fevered brain infected
 Where terrors spawned each night
 A young man grew dejected
 A waking dream, a fright amongst frights
 Though my symptoms at last abated
 And the coughing fits did surcease
 An insalubrious nature gestated
 Breeding malaise, a subtle disease
 Then with each passing breath
 In life, he dwelt in death
 This truth I now confess
 A morbid mind obsessed
 Unhealthy thoughts depressed
 By cryptic dreams possessed
 To ever dwell among, the lifeless
 Lifeless!
 A casket-builder's low-born boy
 Child of the grave in name and fact
 Grey days and nights in dark employ
 Set destiny 'pon its deathly path
 Dismissed as morbid youth
 Obsessions quite uncouth
 Led to unpleasant truths
 A morbid mind obsessed
 Unhealthy thoughts depressed
 By cryptic dreams possessed
 To ever dwell among, the lifeless
 As all life ends in death
 So with each passing breath
 My destiny professed
 To ever dwell among, the lifeless
 Into the family crypt, I stealthily crept
 Knowing not what I sought 'mongst the mold and the rot
 A sight that was not soon forgot
 And as I lay in the grave, finding the solace I'd craved
 At peace there with the decayed, though they called me depraved
 It was there a dark path was paved
 A morbid mind obsessed
 Unhealthy thoughts depressed
 By cryptic dreams possessed
 To ever dwell among, the lifeless
 As all life ends in death
 So with each passing breath
 A destiny professed
 To ever dwell among, the lifeless