What Was
I am the lift in the wind, and the flame in the fire
I am the shift in the earth, and the hope you aquire
I am the drops in the rain, and the mud in the grass
I am the spirit in a lamb and the joy you run past
I am freedom and awe, a seed of pride sown
I am the thoughts that comfort you when you are alone
I am the brown in the bark and the white in the snow
I am the color in the fall and the river that flows
I am the blue in the ocean and the spring in your step
I am the love that you cherish and the faith that you kept
I am the peak of a mountain and the leaves of a tree
I am the spark in your eyes when you think of me
There’s no one else that I desire
There’s nothing else that I require
You’re my food, my water, my air to breath
Together forever - a child is conceived.
In a perfect moment suddenly, everything goes wrong.
Your heart is blackened - a funeral song
There is nothing for us, nothing but grief.
Now dead is the child that we had conceived
Dead. Is the love we felt at first sight.
Alive. Is the darkness - drowning the light.
Alive. Are the screams, the screams in the dark
Dead is the joy - and everything that was ours.
You blame me, I know, for what happened that night
A time our fires of hatred ignite
And upon your part, played so well,
a thousand hopes shattered, and a little girl fell.
Fears, they haunt you, there's blood on your hands
There’s nowhere to run - the memory stands.
You - are the one that opened that door.
You - are the one that started this war
For you are the one who left as she grew
As fires of ice consumed what you knew
And now you blame me
But you’re blinded from the truth
Your eyes forced to see
That you took her youth.
Eyes of gold and fists of steel
Like a cold hearted serpent you no longer feel
You shut me out, of your life, your heart
Second by second we grow further apart.
Hour by hour, minute by minute
Energy and goodness - fast to finish
Week by week - year by year
You conceal yourself, you’re consumed by fear.
Once a proud eagle - now cowering in a corner
Destroyed, no escape, from visions of horror.
Now, the only thing that denies you your peace
Was the one think that you used to seek
And now you come with a knotted rope
And you finally destroy - your very last hope.