Cold Blood

Standing in ambient darkness,
My blood runs cold, congealing
The well of my soul grows dry
Now that you're turning your back
On the life and power I've given

Somewhere in haunted shadows
Parts of my heart lay fractured,
Bits and pieces of who I once was
Yet that life is now gone from me;
I perished when you walked away

Frozen within, my spirit sleeps;
Vapor sublimates off of the semblance
Who I once could always recognize,
But she is another mere stranger
Sculpted into an icy apparition

I reach out, hoping you'll reach back
Even though you can't see or feel me;
Curse circumstance for this distance
Holding and pushing us farther apart
Daily, my core fades into nothingness

Must I be condemned forevermore
To this sickening realm of loneliness?
Right now I don't want to be here,
Enthralled inside this wretched body
Crying out, I beseech liberation

All I want is to hear your whisper
Or feel the lively prickle of a kiss,
Remind me that love hasn't fled;
Only you can revive me so deeply,
The life among this awful perdition.