Where the wind sings of sorrow Where starlit sands shine like frozen tears In the shadow of a great absence My shoulders felt the weight of aching years In these moments of regret For words unsaid and deeds undone On haunted shores, I wander alone Waiting for a dawn that never comes Broken temples Monuments of grief Two covenants One to burn and one to keep In twilit fields of memories Through desolation plains A forlorn trail marked side by side With shattered chains Each link a broken promise So strange, yet so like my own To know I'm not the first to walk this path To know I'm not alone Broken temples Monuments to grief Two covenants One to burn and one to keep Step by staggered step I drag these chains of loss For every breath, a price For ever love, a cost Unified in loss In miles of chains that fell away In their tears, a mirror And through the fog, escape Even in their grief They left a path for others' sake Gratefully I mark the way For those who follow in my wake