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Since the dawn of our loss

Death has consumed our hearts

And the cold, searing winds

Have ached and torn my broken soul

Figures of memories and joy shown before my eyes

As shadows cast by last sheds of light

As ancient as I

Memories are all that I have

And even they began to dim

Into this never ending silence

I see her ghost before my eyes

Her eyes like stars, her ivory skin

And the breath that died

Died before my eyes

Before my cries

I cannot rest

I cannot sleep

She took my sun

She took my tears

And gave me pain

Hate, disgust and fear

In my emptiness I hear her voice again

I see her face in the mist

I smell her scent in wind

I think that in my loneliness

I have dwelled far too long

To see such things, to hear such voices

And to see faces in the mist

In day I feel

Her passing presence

Are you here too?

Have you returned?

This dawn wasn't brighter

Than any of the past

I see the dawn, first one in centuries

Light swallows me whole

Pain is all I feel, but even that is a comfort

Slowly as I let myself go

Soon my sweetest we are together

Married in Death