The Sacrifice Remains

How did your heart feel when you left my world undone?
The broken shards of happiness
Were spoken rumors in serpent tongues
And how do your nights keep you from waking in misery?
From the haunting ghosts of laughter and the cry of memories
The painful cry of memories

When you walked out my door how I prayed that you not to leave
But your plastic smile and carelessness were troubled visions with no relief
When you handcuffed my rapture and you led it away
Could it be our love was in vain?
Our late night vows were washed away
But the sacrifice remains

How do I tell you I am nothing without you? How does silence begin to speak?
In the wake of tomorrow inconsolable sorrow feeds upon me for I am weak
All the strength from within me cannot lift empty dreaming
All my vessels lay wrecked in blame
I have all but forgotten ripened love that turned rotten
But the sacrifice remains

Damn nostalgic wine - the fermentation I thought I knew
Yesterday fades to grey like a wilted bouquet
Taking with it my carefree youth
Reveal once more a placid shore, a bright horizon for me to claim
But alas there is darkness and my spirit forsakes me
But the sacrifice remains

How did your heart feel as I laid there in disgrace?
The tears that I wept washed anew a foul past
But my bloodstains were ne’er erased
And how I wish I fit into the garment that bares no shame
My death has razed the agony
But the sacrifice remains.