Winter Light

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Hearts call
Hearts fall
Swallowed in the rain
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Tears fell, one dripping after the other, flowing down the pool at the tip of a nose, then dripping onto the wood of an empty casket. Eyes were souldful as they looked at the picture that waved gaily back.

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Who knows
Life grows
Hollow and so vain
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Fingers quickly dashed away tears, but more came to take their place on the tired face, accenting the already pale skin, the drawn mouth, the emptyness.

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Wandering in the winter light
The wicked and the sane
Bear witness to salvation
And life starts over again
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Hands shook as they were lowered to the side of black pants. Nails had grown long in the eternity it had seemed since that night. An eternity that should have been years in the future, brought to the present by a creul twist of fate, suffering that should have been at the end of a lifetime, now threatening to stretch until the end.

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Now the clear sky is all around you
Ah... Ah...
Love's shadow will surround you
All through the night
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The chance was gone, only regret remained. The love was still there, but the only way to express it was through tears and heart gripping sobs that tore unwillingly from the throat. He was alone. Two dead, and one that was dead to him.

Star glowing in the twilight
Tell me true
Hope whispers and I will follow
Till you love me too
Ah ah ah
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There was no one to protect him on his monthly ventures, no one to keep him from doing things he regreted, no one to share his stories with. No one who knew him for who he was and loved him regardless.

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Now the clear sky is all around you
Ah... Ah...
Love's shadow will surround you
All through the night
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Long hair was uncared for as blood-shot eyes finally dried, for there were no more tears left in the tired body. Dry sobs wraked his body as his legs collapsed and he fell to the hard marble floor. He could not say goodbye, had never dreamed of having too, and found himself wishing to be in the casket, wishing that the casket was not empty, at least. He, who could face the greatest evil and come out unharmed, could not even say goodbye to a dear friend.

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Star glowing in the twilight
Tell me true
Hope whispers and I will follow
Till you love me too
Ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah...

He missed him, and knew he always would.