You watched silently as
Darkness' shroud
Cast itself around your shoulders-
Didn't care
Your sun was still there
The flame that you worshipped
That couldn't help you-
So the ghost-devil hides in his
Darkness
Only his slanted eyes
Showing emotionlessly in the black
And you didn't care
Chose to ignore what was there
Didn't care at all
You ghost-devil.
You never seem to know-
Hardly ever speak
Taking up the role of Mephisto
Underneath your master-
Don't care at all
Don't notice how you fall
And only watch the reflection
Of a substance long ago abandoned
From your darkness.
Protective darkness-
The darkness so far from your
Wonderful fire-
But that shadow still protects this
Ghost-devil
From the prying eyes
Of the living-
So it is always welcome
To you, the phantom
Thou creature of solitude
And unearthly silence
Who takes up the role of Mephisto
Underneath his master.
-And you didn't care-
Inseparable
Such are you
Though tied by revenge
And something more
Something
Perhaps you see in your master
The remnants of a substance
Long ago abandoned
By you?
Only you know,
Phantom
Phantasm
Ghost-devil
And you don't care at all
Don't notice as your life begins to fall
Into the ocean's merciless
Depths
Although you are separately conjoined
To your master
Under whom you play the role of Mephisto
Via a common revenge-
His against a spectral white whale
Just like you
Phantom
Specter
Spirit
Phantasm
Ghost-devil . . .
Fedallah.
Darkness' shroud
Cast itself around your shoulders-
Didn't care
Your sun was still there
The flame that you worshipped
That couldn't help you-
So the ghost-devil hides in his
Darkness
Only his slanted eyes
Showing emotionlessly in the black
And you didn't care
Chose to ignore what was there
Didn't care at all
You ghost-devil.
You never seem to know-
Hardly ever speak
Taking up the role of Mephisto
Underneath your master-
Don't care at all
Don't notice how you fall
And only watch the reflection
Of a substance long ago abandoned
From your darkness.
Protective darkness-
The darkness so far from your
Wonderful fire-
But that shadow still protects this
Ghost-devil
From the prying eyes
Of the living-
So it is always welcome
To you, the phantom
Thou creature of solitude
And unearthly silence
Who takes up the role of Mephisto
Underneath his master.
-And you didn't care-
Inseparable
Such are you
Though tied by revenge
And something more
Something
Perhaps you see in your master
The remnants of a substance
Long ago abandoned
By you?
Only you know,
Phantom
Phantasm
Ghost-devil
And you don't care at all
Don't notice as your life begins to fall
Into the ocean's merciless
Depths
Although you are separately conjoined
To your master
Under whom you play the role of Mephisto
Via a common revenge-
His against a spectral white whale
Just like you
Phantom
Specter
Spirit
Phantasm
Ghost-devil . . .
Fedallah.
