Journey Through the Fog

Gone is the flame
 Smoldering the ashes
 A flickering fades into my eyes
 Pursued by the howling of life
 The shadows cast by fading pyre
 At the hour of twilight stand guard
 For creatures lurk in deepest dark
 Waiting for the light to grow sparse
 Their hopelessness, the endless mist
 As long as I breathe they are mine
 So I beg of the wind for a whisper of my fallen kin
 But their shadows on the trees are nothing but a fantasy
 So distant the calling of forgotten dreams
 How they yearn and beg for release
 I stand idle as they all are crushed by the turning of destiny's wheel
 A nomad of the wasteland journeys through the fog
 Where my feet have trodden, deepest are the bogs
 Where the wind is howling its song I wade through the snow
 A journey of the heart, no path can take me where I go
 I am a withered wanderer, wayward are my goals
 Lost in ancient forests, crystallized by souls
 Was my burden once an honour, it's reduced to plight
 In this fortress of the mind I have been haunting all my life
 Beyond the great golden divide
 A cadence frail so warmly strikes
 For whom it fades the soul divides
 Forever gone to where the daylight died
 Fixed on the horizon ever is my gaze
 Bitterly I stride on, blinded by the haze
 Is it dawn or will the dusk fall, I'll never know
 For the darkness that surrounds is reminiscent of my own
 The mist envelops ruins, (their) purpose lost in time
 Statues in seclusion - empty are their eyes
 How I long to find a reason this world to endure
 But all I see are corpses of those who were lost -
 Before
 The cadence frail now slowly fades
 A formless pale steps from the shade
 And whispers to my mind
 "The time has come to leave your shape behind"
 Oh flame of life, mother regret
 Have mercy on this fallen wretch
 Grant me the strength to travel on
 And reach the hall to where the raven guides
 My body's too cold to move on, in one final act of defiance
 My feet stand steadfast in the snow
 But the frostbite takes its final toll
 I heave my hands towards the sky and sound my final forlorn cry
 I plead and beg the sky for mercy
 As my heart is freezing slowly, I embrace the storm
 And as I die I see the veil lifted by the sun