From waters of churning conviction
A vessel deluding defeat
By illusion's sweet benediction
Set sail on winds of deceit

And she rode on waves of deception
For a time when time was immune
To the haunts of rippled reflections
That danced in the dark of the moon

For awhile her smile of elation
Was the guide to the ride of her life
Through illusion's cheap imitation's
Deliverance of doleful delights

But alas her hulls unguarded
Ran aground on vacancy's reef
Sinking the hopes that she guarded
In the splintering of her beliefs

And her demons returned on the hour
Of the sigh of her final regrets
Rejoicing their barter of power
With illusion's vision of death