Heartbreak and Seance

Before the war, this grave darksome pall

Pressed upon the face of England

We were sovereign to nothing less

Than the map of our souls solicitous to reign

Together in a peace these wicked times disdain

Then empires saw much more to gain

The Crown discounts our loss

Life cannot count the cost

These numbers fount like water

The dead, the dying, those on route to slaughter

Valentine sweet spine entwined

I am sorry that i left you here, in time

I will find, the path back from the other side

So keep a candle burning

In your heart that is my shrine

No Momento Mori

For he passed away

For faraway glory

So tear the pages

From this castaway story

Spilling tears fill her lachrymatory

She seeks to pierce the veil

Melancholia

Speaks the fiercest tale

Weeks are growing lonelier

Ever stonier regailed

Love's bond responding beyond the pale

The planchette is promissory

Purveyance of this Seance

In obeisance to the spirits

Before their dismissory

The Crown discounts our loss

Life cannot count the cost

These numbers fount like water

The dead, the dying, those on route to slaughter

Valentine sweet spine entwined

I am sorry that i left you here, in time

I will find, the path back from the other side

So please accept my kisses

Through the whispers of the Ouija board

I suffer alone

So far from home

Watching you from a distance

A shadow's persistence to roam

No time to atone

You flower alone

Beautifully graven

You cut a black raven

Whose tower has flown

No Momento Mori

For he passed away

For faraway glory

So tear the pages

From this castaway story

Spilling tears fill her lachrymatory

She seeks to pierce the veil

Melancholia speaks the fiercest tale

Weeks are growing lonelier

Ever stonier regailed

Love's bond responding beyond the pale

The planchette is promissory

Purveyance of this Seance

In obeisance to the spirits

Ghosts that haunt amiss, amie

Winter seems far colder

Without you by my shoulder now this year

Faith's blinding glare advanced to frost

Finds her there, entranced to cross

To breach death's porous border

And reach where breath affords no quarter

Helpless, I see her resolve harden

This is where it ends

How the wretchedness portends

The knife in her hand

On the stretch to the promised land

And this is how they found my light

Clutching tight that fateful telegram