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Mother, I have sworn to you

Mother, Where is the respite I have longed for

In this darkness I dwell within

Or will I rest in the star filled skies

Sharing my pain with eternity

And all worlds to come

Mother, I was so wrong

Mother, I am so alone

Nightmother Despair

Your black light shines every waking hour

Nightmother Despair

My mind is yours but my heart belongs elsewhere

In the thoughts of others, in the meadows of beautiful words

Or in the nightmares I took for reveries

Spite is the toxin that suffocates me

Sorrow the rain that drowns me

Cold is the embrace

The moon and the void

Yet I yearn back

into the dark

Nightmother Despair

The void above and the cold below

Nightmother Despair

Nothingness becomes me, a shadow

My heart is a fallen star

Swallowing every ounce of joy

Light dies, and hope withers

My path leads into a place where none shall go

The veil of black covers me, swirling shadows and freezing tides

My flesh, to feed the sea

My bones to house the leeches

Time is still, voices silent

The cold carries away

The guilt, the pain and the grief