Where the wind sings of sorrow
Where starlit sands shine like frozen tears
In the shadow of a great absence
My shoulders felt the weight of aching years
In these moments of regret
For words unsaid and deeds undone
On haunted shores, I wander alone
Waiting for a dawn that never comes
Broken temples
Monuments of grief
Two covenants
One to burn and one to keep
In twilit fields of memories
Through desolation plains
A forlorn trail marked side by side
With shattered chains
Each link a broken promise
So strange, yet so like my own
To know I'm not the first to walk this path
To know I'm not alone
Broken temples
Monuments to grief
Two covenants
One to burn and one to keep
Step by staggered step
I drag these chains of loss
For every breath, a price
For ever love, a cost
Unified in loss
In miles of chains that fell away
In their tears, a mirror
And through the fog, escape
Even in their grief
They left a path for others' sake
Gratefully I mark the way
For those who follow in my wake