Denial

Something more graceful felt like leading you to war
 It sounds so distasteful, more than what you're fighting for
 More flights of stairs derailed, your ascent it falls so slow
 Your body and love impaled on the spikes you left below
 Grief turned to currency just like midas touched it black
 Like rage in its infancy, you're afraid it might turn back
 A flag slashed by injured nights in a fist outside your past
 Waves only eclipsed by fright in its glory at half-mast
 You can't beat denial, it's the murder of your past
 A line drawn hard and broken down
 To lie outside your grasp
 I fooled you by way of greed
 But it opened up your eyes
 Too deep down in your hallowed nerves
 But it came as no surprise
 Your silent servant dragged abyss across the ground
 To wallow sleeplessly on everything you found
 Afraid lasts a lifetime and it crosses paths with mine
 Lost fades its energy, in the end we both but shrine
 So ends disgraceful, ride me back to where I rain
 Controlled and quarantined, impure, distressed and stained
 Your war so makeshift, as if a path through broken seas
 Your faith so restless as you turn to talk to me