Carrying the past in motionless trance as I grieve Invoking the void as I stand in burial reprieve Ascension of pacing descent The all too familiar surrounding my needs A Fallensun flickers in tow, the shining recedes An egregious beckoning To the slab is a soul torn apart All thoughts travelling too far Clawing their way to the edge No solace is found within and beyond the grave The light becomes dimmer inside, in an altered life Feeling the shiver of death in life The eyes becoming more blank with time Reckoning draws to a close, compressing all frailty into a vice No lost cause for the broken Pain for healing the pain Reaching out has become all mundane Still the drowning in shallows, reaching an elegy's end Reborn futility in martyred rebirth Oh, how the light used to shine Oh, how the voice used to sing Oh, how the reality of death was nowhere to find I still long for change I still long for warmth I still long to grasp those who blessed us with their glowing presence I see fate's warning in shadows As I reach the elegy's end I hear reckoning following behind