Ascent - Respire

Lift this flesh up to serve secret desires

The sky above and earth below, our home with the ashes

Of past laments, things left unsaid

A lonesome breeze, the day I left

Your lips on mine, the bitter taste of a yearning heart

That’s lost the strength to love, with regrets weighing down

I sink to the bottom of despair

All alone, slowly dying, there’s a lack within

Born of God, forsaken virtue, this divine flesh

Can you feel all that’s left?

This sprawling distance

This sprawling distance, the silence of isolation

All alone, slowly dying, there’s a lack within my heart

Born of God, forsaken virtue, this divine flesh (is rotting)

Was I thrown into being all broken or did I do this to myself?

In desperation I cry out, please let this life end

If I had to chose, I would want nothing to do with me

If I had to chose, I would want nothing to do with this

To do with this

To do with this

Lover, can you feel your brittle bones break with the weight of words we once

said in silence?

Darling, if all the lonely stars in the sky fell I would still feel your warmth

till the end

My God, if you have made me in your image, then what makes you despise yourself

so?

To be honest, I feel like every breath I take would be better off as my last

And how many more years of this must I bear?

How many more times will I numb myself?

To feel through just another day

I can’t go on

Will I die to find

The true meaning of your smile?

Will the heavens open up

And show me the light of redemption?

Or will the never-ending dark

Be my only salvation?

Will I see your face again

Before my final breath?

When will I see your face again?