Reduced to an Ember Lyrics

An outer wall is torn down
An inner fire is quenched to ash
The smoldering yearnings shadow the sky
and deep withing adversaries of ecstasy clash
Sanguine seas surround the trenches

There is a sound that drowns it all out
A phoenix's song to lull the war
Senses sifted through ashy hands
Listen as the clamour's tongue is cut

Hush and slip through the unending rift

Reduced to an ember
A life deprived of will
Drained to an empty shell
Like nights bereft of dreams,
passion devoid of vehemence
and tension without relief

Eager are those still in blossom
Not those whose faces bliss once adorned
Whose eyes saw a plague cast its shadow
and in time were broken and left forlorn

Once chosen, now destined to wither
Bearing the burden of death
in a procession of the blind
Towards the steepest of cliffsides,
chasing the lost and divine,
looming in the distance enshrined