A Human Failing - Shai Hulud

Open hearts always ache

Beset with pain

But alive

Spent hearts close

Closed hearts die

Preservation of warmth is a battle for a culture downcast

The callousness of frost tempts the weak and weary

A human failing lets its heart die

The frozen tears, unfeeling as stone

Of a mortal glacier, detached as an island

From crystallized hearts of unbroken ice

They wash the warmth away

Reborn in winter, numb to pain

Desperate souls invite death inside

We breath the bitter air of warm hearts turned cold

A human failing lets his heart die

A human failing lets her heart die

Hasten to the tundra

Prevailing sadness is swept across a cold lifeless plain

The most dismal season to choose winter as our destiny

Preferring chill to the pain

A human being flows the warmth of red blood

Reborn in winter, numb to pain

Desperate souls invite death inside

We breath the bitter air of warm hearts turned cold

We human failings

Born of winter, numb to pain

A desperate soul invited death inside

I breath bitter air, my warm heart turned cold

A human failing, I let my heart die

Will we bring our hearts back to life?