Rain, swirling, crashing Soaking a world once sodden Impulse, fever In its midst I will stand, yet remain Unfeeling, frozen Lost in the storm without power To change, escape, to feel Rain, torrent, drowning The hopes and the prayers of the wayward A lull, immersion, illusory wounds The swollen orbs of the sullen crier Mottled gray within malady Force, uncontrolled Crush, bane of soul The hail of seasons untold has come Sorrow's breath blankets the Earth in chill Winter's heart, alone without haven And the night is so cold To breathe is pain, a frigid It sears the soul, as the illness breaks The fragile skin, drain It scours weakness It bleeds away all warmth Nothing remains but void and emptiness Burying deep, I dig beneath To bear this frozen pall A lifetime, falling, falling Nothing Howling into a night that does not hear A solemn keeper of mortal fears Insanity born of a form that is wasting away The illness born of the rain has washed him away Away