Ghost of You

I made an oath not to stray

Not to slip from the choices I made

Self-made the man I am today

Fighting each day not to turn the other way

Heavy lies the burden of forebears

No shelter from what lies inside

Instilled in this very being

Is the shell of a man passed unto me

Like the consuming fire

Like the piercing breeze

The ghost of you lives on in me

Lifetime of drifting aimlessly

In the shadows I exist to be

The gift of eternal grief

Deep as the unforgiving sea

Like the grip of the undertow

That won’t let go

Like every shadow

I am the turmoil

I am the turmoil no time will heal

I am the unseizing wrath

I am the unseizing wrath too late to conceal

I am the emptiness

I am the emptiness nothing can fill

The sickness in your soul

I am the solitude that runs in you

I am the turmoil...

I am the turmoil no time will heal

I am the unseizing wrath too late to conceal

I am the emptiness...

I am the emptiness nothing can fill

I am the solitude that runs in you