La Tour Abolie

Rest? He said,
I barely sleep at night
My mind is ravaged
By morbid images
That have shattered
My fairytale life.

Haunted--
Old in a young body
Mocked by echoes of conversations
I can neither recall, nor regret.

Losing the abandon fight...1
Turning back the minutes
While the hours still progress.
Leaving the dreamer where he lay down,2
To dream the fragments of fallen towers:3
Je suis le Ténébreaux--4
L'Inconsolé--5
Les cris de la Fée.6

Footnotes
1  Allusion: A Tale of Two Cities
2  Allusion: A Tale of Two Cities
3  Tarot, The Tower
4  'I am the dark one': El Desdichado, Gérard de Nerval
5  'The inconsolable': El Desdichado, Gérard de Nerval
6  'The cries of the fairy': El Desdichado, Gérard de Nerval