Sole passenger

Under flocking grey clouds,
 A gathering hounding to lay the ground
 I walked under water,
 I ventured with uncertain footsteps
 Towards the sound of a cold bell
 Mere, yet harsh rings were like my merciless destiny
 Hastily awaiting the arrival of no one but my very self
 My lunar shadow still glared by my side,
 Refusing to ease off its grasp
 Tired old doors finally closed
 Behind my near crumbled self
 All heard was my hammering heart
 In this forsaken carriage
 It was to begin.
 As I could once again unfold my neglected body
 Dust spiralled its way around my pale thin hands
 Around arms with terror's marks
 Which I had learned to look past
 Dead surroundings,
 Yet in the ground where I stood,
 Like in sand, the somehow welcome traces of life were imprinted.
 The flickering lights from outside passed away,
 One by one
 Farewell to this familiar place of grief
 If only the beauty
 Of the emptiness will share with me its solace
 It had called for me,
 The vast, dark outside of the city
 Had convinced me to leave,
 With its voice of consolation.
 These velvet words touched me like nothing human
 In a land of plundering ghouls,
 Its promises solely held me onto the branches of life.
 The avid rain from outside
 Of the glass was like my feelings,
 Ready to cast its waves upon me,
 Yet ricocheted from my walls
 Had not stepped on board here to drown,
 Had a wish to still float