Exile

Exile

The heavens are covered in ashes, 

The clouds wearing anguish and woe

The angels are singing in silence

For sons that they no longer know

The mountains have cast down their pillars

The hilltops have fallen in grief

The flowers now colored in black

The forests have shed every leaf

The oceans lie dormant and somber

The rivers have run their course dry

The birds have ceased all their chirping

On this day when the flames reached the sky

On this day when the flames reached the sky

On this day when the sages all cry

On this day when the holy stones sigh

On this day when destruction is nigh

And now I am homeless and lonely

Like a lamb lost, I wander and roam

For I have perverted my duties

I have witnessed the doom of my home

And now I am tortured and beaten

Hated despised and abused

A floundering fish out of water

Battered and broken and bruised 

And my glory has long been forgotten

The heavenly throne now ablaze

For foxes and heathens now trample

As I wail and lament for those days

And the oceans of blood have ascended 

And the mountains of corpses the same

We plead and we pray for salvation 

To once again see your great name

Yet through all the misfortune and sorrow 

Through all of the bloodshed and pain

Your hand has been right beside us

The hardship has not been in vain

 And no matter what may come upon us

We stand stronger than ever before

For we’re standing on shoulders of giants

So now we can access your door 

For although we may still be in darkness

And we sit in our sadness and mourn

We know that there is a purpose

Through disaster our redemption is born