NEITHER TIME NOR TIDE CAN HEAL A LOSS AS PROFOUND, AS SURREAL THIS LIFELESS COLD IS ALL I FEEL THEN ALL AT ONCE TO VANQUISH FROM LIGHT VIVIFIED I WITNESSED THE STARS IN RAPTURE EXPLODE AND COLLIDE THROUGH A HAZE OF MEMORIES BLEEDING INSIDE The highest of hopes left impossible debts Of darkness and pain and deeper regrets Facing our future of paradise lost Interred my soul in permafrost Motionless oceans cease With barriers of stone Scarred by algid winds Through centuries blown Through centuries blown A distance that cannot be bridged Where only the dead have ever voyaged Where spirits entwine in holocaust You buried my heart in permafrost A solitary prison Wrought from anguish and ice Confining ravaged hearts No hope can excise No hope can excise A prisoner of ice The sole survivor of this wreckage A shattered spirit far beyond salvage TRAVERSING THE NOTHINGNESS OF UNBROKEN NIGHT SEARCHING THE STARS I STILL DREAM OF YOUR LIGHT I REMEMBER THE OCEANS THAT RAGED SO DEEP INSIDE I REMEMBER THE FIRES THAT FATE HAD FAILED TO ELIDE NOW I AM FROZEN FEARING INFINITY AND I'M ONLY CERTAIN OF THIS UNCERTAINTY LOST IN THIS LANDSLIDE OF MY OWN DESIGN I WATCHED ALL OUR DREAMS DIE UPON THE VINE