how to escape this maze?

its fiendish endless turns

daylight fades into night

each star shining yearns

 

she led me by the nose

foxed my clueless radar

adrift on a pond of doubt

no hint of the North star

 

abets my rush then turn

laughs at each blind sally

sneers at my geography

each old dead-end alley

 

how did it come to this?

no escaping the sorrow

will they find me prone

on the frosty morrow?

 

or will chance free me

someone hear my cry

am I to break out free,

or to despond and die?

 

my mistress has the key

lodgekeeper at the gate

hear her mocking sneer

at my self-inflicted fate

 

for we built this labyrinth

although at her behest

passion into purgatory

her marriage love-nest