Only the Altar

I walk these halls now by myself

The smoke has settled with the sun

But a lantern flickers on the shelf

I cannot speak for my own health

I couldn’t see, I didn’t run

I walk these halls now by myself.

Brave men have come into my cell

But they couldn’t hear me come undone

And a lantern flickers on the shelf

I feel the house is cold, myself

Although the flames have overrun

I walk these halls now by myself

In the end none of my wealth

Could spare a thing once fate had spun

Though a lantern flickers on the shelf

Each day I grow more blind and deaf

My ashen body in the sun

I cannot stay here by myself

I miss the lantern on the shelf