I Got My Dead Man Sleep

I got my dead man sleep

I lived as wolf among the sheep

With screaming hate I hide the tear

But at night my daemons made me fear

I laid me down in autumn rain

A man should not live in shame

I sleep underneath red leaf

The maple's gift to hide my grief

I was the Ahab of my life

My wrath was my love and my wife

I hunt through oceans for The Whale

To burden him with wrath and fail

While I dream I wither away

I'll never see the spring in May

The wolves will dig out all my bones

They scattered rot between the Stones

My rest seems now calm and deep

Finally I got my dead man sleep