The change is made within an innocent breath
A veil around an existence
Accursed with a solitary death

Dancing a line of unending decline
Over chasms I knew not to be
A wave of emotions 'pon desolate oceans
That drown in a lust to be free

Though birds may sing it is oft unsure
Does the joy of life from their spirits stem?
To grace the skies yet shy away
From the eyes that most adore them

All that is hurt and all that is loved are one
Does the blood on these hands
Now dry in the heat of the sun?

Admist a sea of tranquility
Must I writhe on a desperate shore?
A spirit and mind no longer aligned
With an honour I cannot restore

Guilt shall feed the nightmares
That I slumber with this eve
Tomorrow I must walk among the shame
How sad it is, a mind that
Harboured such control and pride
Is now the sickened brethren of the lame

Dancing a line of unending decline
Over chasms I knew not to be
A wave of emotions 'pon desolate oceans
That drown in a lust to be free

Admist a sea of tranquility
Must I writhe on a desperate shore?
A spirit and mind no longer aligned
With an honour I cannot restore

Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.

All her bright golden hair
Tarnished with rust,
She that was young and fair
Fallen to dust.

Lily-like, white as snow,
She hardly knew
She was a woman, so
Sweetly she grew.

Coffin-board, heavy stone,
Lie on her breast,
I vex my heart alone,
She is at rest.

Peace, peace, she cannot hear
Lyre or sonnet,
All my life's buried here,
Heap earth upon it.

Darkness stretch these realms that taint me
On these sheets forever curled
She who drew the light from shadows
Never shall again be held...

Spectre of the idle hours
Rest upon this dying sun
We who touched the souls of all
In mortal life shall not be one

Life bereft of sight or reason
Save your gentle afterglow
I, beneath a placid dreaming
Cower when the soft winds blow
Cower for its all I know

Mourning shall I slumber always
Rise to wish of dreams that mend
The agony of your departure
Will this sadness never end?

Evergreen immortal pasture
Whence you rest, a dream below?
Do you live in timeless love
Or shall your pain I never know?

One day shall we grace these skies
Entwined again forever held
Together in the amber twilight
One within another world

When they finally claim you
All matter will cease, all dreams will expire
And with a dead angel's touch
And the loss of myself
The vapour will fade
Until the day that I join you

When you finally take yourself
Day will be night, all will be nothing
As the flickering candles that lit up our chess
Can burn no more
When the queen has fallen
Now I cower in this hollow room

Acutely aware that the time is approaching
When what I love above all else
Will be only my greatest memory
It's both tragic and symbolic
That in your darkest hour
You can still shine so bright

The winter may wilt and the springtime may fly
And the springtime may fly
The summer rain is gone and the year may die
And the year may die
But this I know for certain: you'll come back again
And even as I promised you'll find me waiting then
You'll find me waiting then

God help you when wandering your way all alone
Your way all alone
God grant to you his strength as you'll kneel at his throne
As you'll kneel at his throne
If you are in heaven now waiting for me
In heaven for me
And we shall meet again love and never parted be
And never parted be

The night sky lights the fallen star
To hold us in its grasp yet mock us from afar
As cancer holds us all askew
To mourn the dying now and start a life anew

The shadows move the moonless breeze
Across the lustrous shore
As flames engulf
The anechoic halls forevermore

In fields the night is but
A thousand interwoven beams
To close my eyes and never rise
From interlunar dreams

My dying moment's searing kiss
The final proclamation
Of what I'll never miss

Beneath infinity I see
The radiance within
And what I loathe in thee

How did the source of all things grand
Become a mortal tomb?
How did such sadness stem
From love embodied in the womb

From earth the night is like
A calling home, or so it seems
To close my eyes and never rise
From interlunar dreams

The futility of being,
The heavenly despair
The gushing smears of pain
At last unfurled

As crimson love expands
Around a now eternal stare
I dream alone
For this is not my world

Where once a naive child learnt the ropes of life and pain
An ashen path has forged to view those remnants with disdain

As leaves descending earthward are a seasonal display
Within those trees and subtle breeze I fell to grace today

Where once a sheltered boy had learnt the sadness of his past
An ashen path has forged to burn the memories at last
As snakes discard their fettered skin and carry on the same
Without that flesh the life is fresh, as though reborn again

Shadows of a candle once adorned
With ambiance beneath a dying flame
Unending is the grief so long alone
The crying light to death reborn again
Reborn again
Reborn again

Today the snakes lie naked
And the land's adorned with leaves
And I rest upon the sunset
With a soul that's learnt to breathe
Today I fell to grace
Amongst a thousand rising embers
Beneath the sky they fade and die
At last... lest I remember