I cry a tear of hate but it is lost in helplessness.
the darkness eats away at the very embers of my soul
for the deepest love i have has dissolved before my eyes.
my sorrow is bleak, i beg for deliverance.

lord, in your mercy, hear my prayer.

all emotion is consumed by an inner silence.
all grief is unassuaged by disconsolate tears.
i want for nothing, i live for nothing.
i am waiting to die, but i am afraid dying.

lord, in your mercy, hear my prayer.

crestfallen emotion.
wallowing in guilt trying
and drowning forevermore.

falling deeper into fear.
my inner self is now
a sleeper of stone