Joyless

When I first heard you whisper

I was ready to disclose

Have you been here my whole life?

Watching me grow

Gave me dread for devotion

Gave me bandages for clothes

And the mark of a lost son

Sweet and precious host

Joyless, on nails I tread

Joyless, this heart of lead

Joyless, and every breath is joyless

I don’t long I was hiding

When you took me from this shell

Hands in comfort, tear a diamond

And blood falls softly from the veil

in te sumus.

Deum in te

non rumpitur

sola vasa

alta aqua

sacra terra

ignis sanctus

pura caeli

umbra spiritus

Joyless, on nails I tread

Joyless, this heart of lead

Joyless, and every breath is joyless