Apparitions - Sylosis

How quick the seasons change

The leaves turned from green to grey

A flickering Apparition hovers above

So familiar

Yet so distant

Preserved in age

Icey hands support a somber face

Like a curse of immortality

Father time mocks me

Through grave and tomb

Past valley and precipice

Emerges the ghost of retribution

The horizon burns

Set light by kin and blood

A snake amongst us

Has soured this soil

Sometimes I hope you aren’t looking down on me

To witness what I’ve become

Through time you will see what blinds you

Beholder of all light

Turn back the stone

To your slumber return

Suspended on a tide of obscurity

A wraith missing a crown

It almost feels like

Time is standing still

Yet somehow time

Has drained me of my youth

The years I’ve waited

Have all but slipped away

Torn from me

Father time forever mocks me

I have become

I have become powerless

Powerless

I have become

I have become so emotionless

Through time you will see what blinds you

Beholder of all light

Turn back the stone

To your slumber return