I Feel the Night

I shy away from impossibilities

And disbelieve any sunlight in black eyes

But I shouldn't be so sure

Should not rest with second sight

I feel the night touch my heart

A torrid river sweeps this shadowed art

Burns through a gate at which appears my maker

So cold, alight my father's eyes

Distorted visions may have left me unchanged

While truth and clarity could lead me astray

But I've witnessed too much pain

Without choosing, without pride

I feel the night touch my heart

A torrid river sweeps this shadowed art

Burns through a gate at which appears my maker

So cold, alight my father's eyes

A sigh, feeling's gone

Rage subsides, I lost my head

"Don't try, don't say it

Shake this moment off your weary mind"

A sigh beyond this world

Silence greets me now

All my fears aside

If soil and tree

Would not answer me

Now the mighty heavens will