What world has been turned upside down
As demons from Hell's bowels fled
To scatter the shadows in all directions
Where even Angels feared to tread

A wilted tree in a field of barb wire
The stars to frozen dead eyes have turned
Forever, in my ears will ring
The howling of fire, the screams of the burned

Lives dropped off at the edge of a cliff
A still night has past, but one or ten?
I dreamed of those who once were there
For them the silence bares no end

The officer who stood by the scaffold
I'll never forget what he stole from me
The day I lost the desire to live
My innocence, my faith, my family

Gnawed by fear, in spite of myself
Scouring the emptiness in search of day
What have I to gain in blessing His name?
Even Humanity looks the other way

Brothers turned against one another
Aren't we all but humans alike?
How could the river of our feelings burst through
Swell of resent and brutal might?

My senses as blunt as if in a fog
Helpless but to obey the deafening command
Until a time when my will is once again strong
And my spirit has found a place fit to land

They told me that my God was dead
But though I was rendered incapable of seeing
I knew he was not fallen or gone from the world
For I felt the presence of his being

Something I had learned along the way
And though from doubt I tried to resist
Not only should the mind be strong
But faith in God, and hope, persist