Succumb

Coffins Linger
In crimson translucency
Knocking, rapping, echoing
Their refrains enrapture

Singularly a voice sings

A sultry goddess
Of Mountains, ominous and dark
Glorious, they sway
Capturing imagination

Liquid, moving, with every breath

Mermaids on yesterday’s horizon
Gaze lustily
On today’s destination
And waves crash over all

White foam hangs in the cold air

Transcendence of time and space
Arrests and caresses
My soul
I am whole

Death wraps its arms around  

And I succumb