Into the Embrace of Winter

I was born a winter's night
 An only child
 Branded unwanted
 I was forlorn
 A soiled seed of life
 The wise would have said
 That I was broken from the start
 To see how life spat in my face
 I felt the cruelty of it all
 Worse it became
 With every passing year
 As the other children shunned me
 With no one to call a friend
 My heart grew colder
 From childhood then, through much travail
 I've battled with the ills of life
 'til like a rude and rugged rock
 My heart grew callous in the strife
 When other children passed the hours
 In mirth and play and childish glee
 I was dealt a losing hand of cards
 Yet I was too blind to see
 I wandered there a shadow
 A spectre self-destroyed
 Snuffed out
 Buried alive
 Inside my mind
 Dealt an ill-fated hand in the cursed deck of life
 Strife and misfortune there entwined
 Beaten and broken, marred over time
 An existence doomed from the start
 Time, time may mar
 Time is merciless and cruel
 Yet in the darkness like a star
 Her visage remains enshrined
 Time may mar
 Time is merciless and cruel
 Yet in the darkness like a star
 Her visage remains enshrined
 Beaten and broken, marred over time
 The stars were dimmed and the moon shed no light
 Beaten and broken, marred over time
 In an existence doomed from the start
 Beaten and broken, marred over time
 The stars were dimmed and the moon shed no light
 Beaten and broken, marred over time
 In an existence doomed from the start