I carry a coin on my lips I see through a filter of grey The leaking craft carries me To a world of flameless smoke Under the cosmic roots In the vaults of asphodel My hope is their memory of me Here is a poison without root Here is a cry without sound As if I sensed the life I left Through my own dead senses I yearn to feel, the cold, the dark To be afraid, to be anything I cannot choose but walk The feet that carry me are numb The hands that guide me are bones The staff I lean on is my coffin lid I’m going blindly to my fate All around me they sleep Never dreaming, only walking Somnambulating ghosts Shades like me, but thoughtless If this be a vision If this be illusion If I am asleep, alive I pray not to die like this. And my descendants What of them? Will they pour some wine Into my grave-earth? Weill they tell my story still? As long as my line lives I live with them also.