"A little darkness before the dawn"

A little darkness before the dawn
A little desolation before the sun
To Hell and its Gates before we break
A breath so deep before the plunge we take

Heaven's eternal fires are ours to have
Just our hollow hearts we need to halve
If we could see the silver stairs to the stars
And journey towards them no matter how far

Minutes are lost with every passing hour
A droplet drained from the well of power
Or health to our heathen hearts still beating
In this decrepit life ever so fleeting

The heavy toll of midnight's coming
Like the storm from our summoning
Dancing like the dead under the moon
Seeking and searching till eventual doom

But the imperial sun rising once again
Laid us bare under the Light's reign
And we dancing dead stood there instead
Opened our eyes and felt its godhead

Such that we too rose
To join the stars now decomposed
And compose ourselves once more
To reignite our dimming cores

A little darkness before the dawn
A little fear before end of song
To reach the fires of the illustrious sun
To return from where we once had come

M.M. — 01-Mar-2015