Drowning in Dark Water

Another night under the cold and unforgiving stars

Warmed only by the days passing until the final sleep

And dreams no longer come to me in vivid fantasies

I wallow in wilted promises that I have failed to keep

And footsteps, dogged by my mistakes and faces once that I 

Knew and loved so very much that now cause me to weep

For I had failed my love, and life hath given into darkness

And cast my lies unto the silent water dark and deep

They cast me out, and frozen depths become my only home

And fault upon the fighting tide that yearns me into sleep

But still with burning desire my beating heart burns onward

I wallow in wilted promises that I have failed to keep

An ethereal glow beneath me filters from the depths

The undiscovered darkness when I close my eyes to sleep

It beckons, but I linger to remember what was mine

To cast my lies unto the silent water dark and deep

But the image of the world is naught but distorted reflection

I cannot breathe the heavy sky nor feel air's dry wings sweep

The stars are but a painted roof above my watery tomb

I lie in wilted promises that I have failed to keep

I stare, up far above at the dancing stars once more

For locked away beneath the surface, tumbling into sleep

At worlds that lie so many years behind my fading footsteps

I cast my lies unto the silent water, dark and deep

And chilled and blackened water ebbs and flows above my head

With freezing water aching through my lungs doth gently seep

An aerial dance of impassive death within my molten prison

I drown in wilted promises that I have failed to keep