I lie with blackened chest Tears, dense, welling in swollen eyes Resplendent in winter's ash My God be upheld in our distress My cries fill the air Domine libera manes defunctorum Winter envelopes I lie with blackened chest Tears, dense, welling in swollen eyes Resplendent in winter's ash Where is my God, in the dull ear of night? With tuneless voice, a requiem sung Wailing and breadless, alone On a flower strewn earth Where is my God? Look at me, upon my bruised head Taste my ruin, my ashen soul I tread alone Winter envelopes