Infinite sorrow

When this infinite sorrow takes hold of my heart

I am a stranger wandering the lost lands

Set so far apart from my kin

Shadows cover my eyes as I cry silently

No one sees or ever notices me

Even as I wander their familiar streets

There is no way to make it known

What I have suffered

Nor how confused I was

When the awakening dawns

I fall to the floor in grief

But within the ruins

Can I see the pearls

That form from my tear drops

There is a stopping

That brings an arising

There is an awakening

That brings this shedding

And so it is

Infinite sorrow holds us firmly

Within its grip

For as long as it takes

A new vision of promise to arise

From the darkening night skies

Attended by the apricot tinge

Of soul’s silent dusk