Um dabei zu bleiben, wieder eine neue lyrische Form auszuprobieren, folgt nach dem Haiku in der letzten Runde diesmal eine Ballade. Hat mich jetzt eine ganze Weile gekostet, das Ding zu schreiben …
Wer übrigens das historische Vorbild erkennt, kriegt einen Keks. 
The World Amiss
As thou hadst closed thy eyes at night
On either side the dreamscape lied
Endless nightmares, death, and fright,
For no man ever hath proscribed
The evils of the world amiss.
And up and down the dreams shalt go,
Profaning deep'st desired glow
Ev'ry time thy thought let'th flow
Throughout the evil world amiss.
To fight the rotten dreams so dreary,
To live the concupy of Mary,
All thou hadst to spill is cherysh
All it bringeth, all it carrieth,
The long desired world amiss.
Admission cost'th thy hopes and levy,
On entering abandon ev'ry,
Stridest nude and stridest heavy
The gates to evil world amiss.
Deep into that darkness staring,
Thou hadst wait for gloaming, glaring
Of those nightmares, creeping, raring
And the nights those shalt bring bearing
With no chance to ever shun.
And down the dreamscape's dim expanse
Like some old guardian in a trance,
Waiting all to save the dance
Siteth she, the putrid Nun.
In the stormy nights of crying,
The putrid Nun chant'th loud and fyring,
Chas'th away all nightmares tryings
With a hearty will but viling.
And so it dieth, the world amiss.
As thou again openest thy eyes
The nightmares shalt no longer gyve
And free thou art, forever 'live
For it hath gone, the world amiss.