There’s no more haunted man than me save Edgar Allan Poe For I have lived vicariously like Edgar Allan Poe I fear I’ve loved and lost in vain like Edgar Allan Poe Only laudanum can ease the pain as it did for Poe
My nerves are taut as harpist strings My heart weeps like a violin
There’s a black hole where my soul should be A smouldering ember of self-pity
I’m just a husk of my former self My bruised heart bottled on the shelf There’s a black hole where my soul should be A smouldering cinder of self-pity
My empty clothes sit in this chair While my spirit takes the evening air.