Substandard performance

Roaming spirits
On fickle ground
Yearning for refuge
Evading the gaze
Of unseen evil
Sinister pith
Fragile creatures
Condemned to burn

Confusing perceptions
Seizing the mind
Imprisoned forever
In artificial world
A halo of sense
Darkens itself
Prolonging the pain
Animating the dead

Dark tide
Reversing direction
Cold wave
Sweeping along