"Hard Crossing"

Where is that daunting monster
Boogie man in life’s shadow
Master mentor and concierge
Whose touch I've come to know

To you I’ll waste no breath
Beauty is not long and septic
My daunting docent of death
Midwife to misery work quick

What small dignities remain
Strung of vomiting seconds
Cultures a pearl of great pain
To ferry a man of no direction