Witness

Winter takes shelter within my veins

As their fire wraps around my skin

My breath tangling in rusted chains

As I watch your death slowly begin

 

Rain begins with the storm of their violence

I cannot hear through the screaming silence

Cannot run to set you free

Cannot believe you're dying for me

 

Pray to God without a sound

Both our bodies hit the ground

And when yours begins to break

Mine does nothing but shake

 

The water blurs the sight of our eyes

My mind numb from the smell of your blood

And the salt of your tears in my cries

Simply drowns me in its flood

 

And when our eyes finally meet

Bearing witness to our fading soul

You rise with fire to your feet

Burning flesh and bone to coal

 

Breathing the life back into me

The light of your eyes is all I see

And as your grace makes me whole

We hear their bell begin to toll

 

Hear their screams rage against the misting glow

See their bodies bleed into the frosting snow

Feel their every tremble beneath this planet

Tasting their sweetness before we damn it

 

Breathing the life back into me

The light of your eyes is all I see

And as your grace makes me whole

We'll never hear our bell begin to toll