Final Night Song

face in the waters face upwards they found him in the bathroom in the sea where water wraiths were passing. moats of beauty separating dilapidated castles falling I saw them in the night I saw them in the moon And all was silence. they found the satyrs all lying face upwards distributed within one hundred square meters: not moving though Dawn had come and birds had chirped and trees had stirred and night was fled and shrouds and ghosts no longer fears spread no no longer. final final final nocturnal verses: the wise the hard-earned heights through hundred and more obstacles they were perverse. impoverished day ill starred right from the beginning lack-lustre birth unfortunate streets winding in the brain residing: now come now come there were many of the birds that were just vultures. they circled circled round carrying in their claws the cups of poison. now resigned resigned echoed the waters echoed the night there were cries from everywhere a babe born in swaddling clothes they circled they circled more the vultures circled.