In the shadow of my tears   Apparitions so firmly appear   Am I trembling?   Need I ask this of myself, again?      A faint whisper so unseen   Can this be mine as I lie deep in dream?   Sanity sings a requiem   Please return to me      Given all the chances   In light of the fading dawn   Will the blind so blindly follow me   Whom lacks capability to see?      In the shadow of my tears   Will my vision break the tension   Of waters keen tranquility   Deeply breathing so openly      Does a sweet alibi   Deem murder fit for sacrifice?      Will my blood stain the carpet   So dry and innocent   The warmth in kerosene   Flickering against my wiltering soul      Will I be the only one?      I lie inside myself   Bury me amidst my flooded vessels   Sanity continues to be my sincerest means   To wish death on myself due to cancerous veins      In the shadow of my tears   Light the way with thy heart   Oh, the fool despairs when rain falls   After night's isolated heat   Yet, listening so closely to the smallest drop of life   A beast is eased and quenched by the near distant   River flowing in my alternate being   So ghastly do I seem   Yet also eyes I have, cannot see   In dearest time blind will be no more   Suffering will be no more   I will be no more