Of light, my dear, I'm afraid,
ravenous hungry to feed,
the blood I got from the maid,
but other now I need.

At the dark edge of the storm
I dive in a pool of life,
riding a manta I scorn,
and finally I control the strife.

She's found my glyph on her neck,
I'm leaving, already on the deck,
While she cries aloud to look back.

I'm gone now, on the wing
hapless, I don't sing,
hapless, in the end of the spring.


di Jude the Obscure