The Shadow

At the dawn of man`s becoming Spun a web of dark deceit So to seize his soul forever Clothed in envy and conceit In the darkness moves the shadow Like a veil of ebony Clouding all the sleeping senses Tracing out each destiny Deep into his core it burrows `Til he bleeds a stream of tears Stealing his tranquillity, and Sowing there his hidden fears As a cloud of starlings flying `Cross the sky to shroud the sun So the mind eclipsed by sorrow - Man`s destruction has begun In the darkness moves the shadow There with heart as black as coal Night obscures the fading dawn, with Dereliction of the soul