Living Pyre - Khemmis

There’s nothing left to give

Nothing to rake through coals

That I can use to keep the flame alive inside

Outside the storm rages

Injustice, bold and ageless

While I’m alone in the cold

I’m drowning in

A mind that’s always caving in

The rivers rise and surround me

My body is

A frame that’s weighed down by it’s sins

An anchor cold

And leaden

We’re burning in the firelight

A living pyre

I can’t just cast aside the burden in my heart

With no relief in sight, I’m being torn apart

(We are merely vessels)

Torn from the empty bliss of night

(Unhallowed by design)

Into the blinding light of life

(Wrought in the image of God)

We have to learn to find a way

(To transcend far beyond)

The tomb from which we came to be

Where we’re interred forever

I’m drowning in

A mind that’s always caving in

The rivers rise and surround me

My body is

A frame that’s weighed down by it’s sins

An anchor cold

And leaden