Is anybody out there?
I'm alone and scared
and all the lights are out
I reached out and everything
I touched was cold
I turned around twice
and realized that I had become old
and all the terrible things
I'd done to my loves
had turned on me ten fold

I found out that all the words
I cursed out loud were for nothing
and
something inside me was dying
The only sound I could make now
was sighing,
but I mustered up a shout
which came out
more like a shriek
or a screech

All the leaves
on the trees were turning,
but not like in Fall
My chickens were coming to roost
as I reached, but to no hand at all

I had given and fought for nothing
and nothing is what I had reaped
The blood that lay
in the ground at my feet
was not even mine

I am the wraith with rusty blades
and I sweep
and stalk my prey
While they lay in their sleep

I lurk in cobwebbed corners dimly lit
for chance to pay pipers back
and fill my soul the heart of sadness
I so selfishly spent my time to split.