The
crown of sympathy
See the light and feel
my warm desire,
run through my veins
like the evening sun.
It will live but no
eyes will see it.
I'll bless your name
before I die.
No person in everything
can shine,
yet shine you did,
for the world to see.
All a man hath will
he give for life?
For life that's lost
bleeds all over me.
I'd fallen before
but it never hurt like this.
Don't leave me here
to crawl through the mire.
I'm without fault
before the throne of god.
Take from me the crown
of sympathy.
What do you think
you'll see?
What do you think
there will be?
Sit down!
Did you see the sun?
What will we become?
Great ones?
The mouths that dare
not speak his name,
behold them, raised,
complete and fine.
The battle for our
lives is oh, so brief.
Take my hand and please
walk with me.
When I was young the
sun did burn my face.
I let its love and
warmth wash over me.
The melting voice
of many, in the hush of night.
Whispering tongues
can poison my honest truth.
Come dress me with
your body, and comfort me.
I dreamt of a dead
child in my sleep.
I wear a terrible
mark in my head.
my clean, white bed.
It calls to me.
I must lie down.
and I want you
to lay with me, in
sympathy.
No sad "adieus" on
a balcony.
For one last time,
just walk with me.
At the beautiful gate
of the temple,
we must be saved.
For deadened, icy
pain,
covers all the earth.
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