Withered

The Dying Sunset

Withered


When the last tear has been shed 
and my last wounds have bled 
I return to the mournful night. 
The sorrowful comfort eases my soul. 
For again I have been betrayed, 
in the far I could even see 
the tempest drawing near. 

My dark refuge, 
you have waited for me. 
Now I shall be eternally yours. 
In the eyes of the stranger, 
a glimpse of you I saw 
and yearned to be again 
at one with darkness. 

I stand and watch the dying sunset. 
Will it return at dawn? 
Or will the clouds cast upon me 
a day of dank greyness? 

I lie here under the stars 
and my heart summons the pain. 
Dulcet and calm is my despair now, 
for at last I seem to understand. 

The wolf I saw on that December night, 
I long to glance at his eyes again. 
Like mirrors they seemed, 
and what I saw was me, 
yet it was not only 
the reflection of his tears... 

In them I could see his life, 
empty, oblivious but full of knowledge. 
Endlessly, searching like me.... 

Now when the trust has been broken 
I return to the December darkness. 
The distant storm seems to be growing weak. 
Still is the night, I inhale the smell of the woods 
and my heart grows colder and stronger. 

My heart once burned with a flame of hope. 
Now I only yearn to be blown by the winds 
and flow in the endless night sky, 
to never return to you...