Life has turned to ashes, all colour fades away

And the flames in the distance only light the way to yesterday

Without your spark there can be no fire in my eyes

And the only burning in my heart is the burning chill of ice

As darkness now takes me, all must fade to grey

For black is too strong a colour to describe what now remains

This broken heart has a razors edge which cuts me like a knife

And I call your name without a hope in the hollow spaces of my life

The fevered breath of your name freezes in my mouth

As it falls upon the bitter embers of your love now turned to ash

And, as I wake, your sleeping face still haunts me in the gloom

For dreams are no release from ashes but become love’s horrid tomb

Burn my eyes

Strip my soul of pain

Release me from your hollow world

Ashes fill my eyes, suffocate my cries, this life I despise, release me from your hollow world

The world is all now ashes, burnt offerings to love

Rejected by a vicious god, and left to rot upon the altar of my hope