Ataraxic Obsolescence

Amongst shining shadows of death
Souls liberated of dark embrace
With anguish in rhapsodic breath
Dreams recrudesce in somber grace

Despondency in shade coalesce
As life after life wilt apace
Agonal revelry to stress
Dreams recrudesce in somber grace

Spirits rise in roseate refrain
Ambrosial in eternal chase
Orphic rapture gaily arcane
Dreams recrudesce in somber grace

Amongst shining shadows of death
Dreams recrudesce in somber grace

Previously published on unveiledpages.blogspot.com and in my poetry collection, On the Doorstep of Dreams.