Encased in a seamless gray A voyage too distant Through a valley of whispering griefs Infertile and useless Trapped in a journey of infinite longing Every moment like the last As it once was and will always be This cannot be overcome Wasted in the ruins of torment Left to crumble in the silence of storms All the bleak words that have failed me Lamenting a truth untold Entombed in a frail cross of stone To vanish from within These sorrows will be burned away with me to be told in oblivion A final stand before I melt to dust The memories of now, penned in blood