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In Hope’s Shadow

Lay Truest Pain

Dragged Before The Throne Of Hell

Ferried by my fell misdeeds

The silver tongued serpent whispers to me

An offer to ponder, chance to be free

Desperation

My Temptation

Hell’s Every Soul

May have a chance

A final act

At hell’s center

Lay a mountain

Of harshest heat

Of Tallest Peak

The Damned may climb

Back to heaven

The Serpent Laughs

In Amusement

For your own hope

Will rot away

There’s no way out

It’s your own doubt

That pulls you down

Though i am wicked, though i’m a fraud

I hold on to these thoughts of better days

My loved ones await me i know they do

They are what i fought for, what i lived for

The devil laughs

The devil mocks

No soul ever

Hath made it out

Id surely fall

My conviction

Would only be

Dashed ‘pon the rocks

But I climb

What is love with no hope?

But ever present

That bleak specter

Hovers o’er me, silent

Sapping my resolve, my strength

My despair shadows me as I Crawl up

Whispering of my faults my shame my guilt

The light fading

Panic pervades

I may climb but should i fall

The weight of failure would be

Even worse still than my sins

I grow ever weary, forever dreary