Winter's Kiss

I stand amidst the drifting snow

Breathless before midwinter’s chill

And on my left lies frozen flow

While on my right a flame burns still

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Though how it lives, I do not know

While ice and iron chain its heart

The rain does pour, the wind does blow

The dead yet seek to steal the art

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The spark of life which yet survives

Despite the vice-like grip of death

Defiantly, it shines and thrives

And resolute, it holds its breath

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It stands against white-knuckled cold

That seeks to choke the life from me

Although my voice you may have sold

I’ll steal it back and then break free

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I will cry out into the void

And find my way by echoes lost

To time which memory destroyed

When moving on came with a cost

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I’m pulling out my hair out here

As aside I’m lightly tossed

I am stomped out by crystal fear

As I’m double-double-crossed

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The rhythm bends and breaks at this

It’s caught beneath layers of frost

The soul of Winter’s Shadow’s kiss

No matter how it might be glossed

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It’s wild what we will trade for bliss

We cling to doubt about the cost

We stare straight into the abyss

Yet cannot see that we are lost

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The brighter shines the light of Truth

The darker is the secret shade

The daring of eternal youth

Is foolishness when all is weighed

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Accept my fate, it seems I must

I don’t regret the moves I made

In Destiny, truly I trust

Through thick and thin and all I stayed

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Because my faith cannot be frayed

The bonds that bind me can’t be cut

Not even by the sharpest blade

This mouth of mine cannot be shut

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Except when my own will is weighed

Against the urge to speak my mind

I might as well recline in shade

Resign myself to act in kind

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For what can one man really do

When all the world is touched by cold

Who cares about my point of view

When by my friends, out I am sold

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I’ll save my words and save my breath

For in my sacred flame still lives

The soul of life, the kiss of death

And evermore to me it gives

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The energy of oaths unsworn

Essential fuel for pure of heart

The secret life of deeds unborn

The voiceless song, the nameless art

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That flame within, it burns me still

And though it hurts, it brands me true

I won’t give in to Winter’s chill

The flame within burns black and blue