This Too Shall Pass

Simmering through the elden throes
Shedding tears over fading glows
By pillar, temple and stone
Settled down ‘neath a mocking throne

How some shadows hold
I fear they won't ever let me go
These calcified, dark angels in my chest
Laid bare the satin flower
As the rain hits my face
This too, shall pass

With sighing eyes
Rolling 'neath shells so deep
Screams are soundless
Soundless yet crackling

Come here through the undertow!
How come we cannot die
Yet, wither everlasting?
Like a blood-red Sun
Paralyzed and stark
In the dying horizon

I depart from the stigmata
Of narcissus
As I look at your face
I think of no stories other
Than the ones I leave to die

And my empty life sighs
But this too shall pass

We are alive
In the undertow
Breathing and bleeding
Through the cosmic riverbed

And prisoners we are
Of a thousand empyrean wars
To sanctify and capitulate
Solemnly to death
Is the death of vanity
In the fraudulence of being
The epitome of ash

I depart from the stigmata
Of narcissus
As I look at your face
I think of no stories other than
The ones I leave to die
And my empty life sighs
But this too shall pass

So, let it rain
Let it rain