I thought I'd lost you my Brother, I'm so glad you came

[shecries_muse_]

Shadows and Stones

My knees run like sand

I retch the gravel

From long ruined foundations

So precious, but easy to unravel

The castle we dreamed of building

Where we once stood

Nothing now but the blood on that ground

Where my mother once wished that we could

She spread her arms with promises

Broken before leaving fingertips

Whispers fuel my tired, weeping heart

Hope is taken in smaller and smaller sips

But here I stand, she will never forget

My arms full of Death as I carry him now

There will be no rise now that the sun has set

Here I am pale in the shackles you allow

My heart is full and searching

My limbs long but reaching end

I still cannot find you, grasp you

This is a break that Love cannot mend

See here how I am so still

Though the gashes run very red

I pretend not to know them

Because the hand that I hold is dead