Despair

You return oh cloud of doubt
and bring with you shadows
that i long left behind
as you hang me at the gallows
Not one bright ray can i find

the joy i once knew,
from the clarity of my mind
lies slain, twisted askew
in a pool of its own blood

The blood
Red, in its brightness
wrought bt my clarity of thought
and now red in death
dead forever, to count for nought

tell me, please do,
if i shall forever wear
this dirty dingy shroud
of utter and total despair