A disconsolate winter
The frost covered graves
Watch the dead roses wilt and decay
The phantoms that last
Loom over the past
In our funerary dreams
We relent to the slow march
Through the tainted earth
Where hope once grew
But the seeds of despair
Are all that bloomed
Bearing poisonous fruit
Blood at the root

Empty are the hours
Of a night with no end
A conscious reverie
Unbroken

The tainted earth
Where hope once grew
But the seeds of despair
Are all that bloomed
Bearing poisonous fruit
Blood at the root

I choke upon this bitter crop
Cut by the scythe
Frail candlelight flickers
Casting ghosts on the walls
In empty chambers
Stood in marble halls
Where the questions reverberate
Silence answers our cries
At lights demise

Silence answers our cries
At lights demise

There was once the dawn of tomorrow
There was once the unwritten page
There was hope we glimpsed once and held
Watched as it withered away

Do we bring our own devastation
Do we choose the hill upon which we die
The tears that fell
The cold lamentation
Thoughts that linger on through the night

There was once the dawn of tomorrow
There was once the unwritten page

Do we bring our own devastation
Do we choose the hill upon which we die
The tears that fell
The cold lamentation
Thoughts that linger on through the night

Somehow I know this pastoral glade serene
From an old recurring dream
I saw places I have never seen

The bottle
The rope
The cessation of hope

All is said
All is done
The epitaph of life
And look back through tear stained eyes
At the writing etched in stone

Where died those dreams we held so tight
I see them glimmer
In amethyst twilight
Why does my countenance falter
Should a moment cross my mind
I break again

It’s the things we
Don’t say
That rot us away

Last breath of a summer breeze
Sunset falls beyond the trees
As you walk out of my memories
Into fields of burnished gold

So leaves the distant summer breeze
Daylight dies beyond the trees
As you walk out from my memories
Into fields of burnished gold

We leave the shadows
At the dawning of the day
Time in ever mourning
Hands to us the key

Alone we go before
We’ve seen back
Way back when
The trees wept leaves
Seasons changed
Dead hours passed away

We grieve the shadows
As the night consumes the day
Time in ever mourning
Takes away the key

Alone we go before
We’ve seen back
Way back when
The trees wept leaves
Seasons changed
Dead hours passed away

Those silent times
Downcast eyes
I tried

There was time

There was time
Rushing through the hourglass
Spilt sand

There was time

There was a time
Seems so long ago
In the bleak November
A winter funeral sun
We looked away
With eyes not of our own

Cold was the morning
And bitter was the chill
In the bleak November
A winter funeral sun
We looked away
With eyes not of our own

Where a distant flame did flicker
The empty hearth
Where the dusk falls deep obsidian
Beneath the weeping stars

Here was the time
Was it so long ago
In the bleak November
A winter funeral sun
We turned away
With eyes not of our own

The stream that leads
Through the cracked and barren moor
Until rising on the hillside
In solitary grey
Stands stark in the wilderness
A dank mist swirls the stone
Of the bleak house foreboding
Saw through eyes not of our own

Askew my sight
Sense I cannot make
Blurred by the opaque
To glimpse through the haze
Is to see on through the clouded maze
Through fog the frail memories
That rest beneath the Linden trees

When I tried to speak
I caught a thistle in my throat
Tears stung my eyes
I could say no more

The words that you spoke
You lit the fire of my funeral pyre
Like narcotic smoke
Swirling my skull
The black flames did rise
I could say no more

Askew my sight
Sense I cannot make
Blurred by the opaque
To glimpse through the haze
Is to see on through the clouded maze
Through fog the frail memories
That rest beneath the Linden trees

Behind these sightless eyes
Images evocation can’t procure
Those that the dark iron bars obscure

The thousand-yard stare
As I blindly observe
That left unwitnessed by ocular nerve

A faint image flitters

I will say no more