nI watched death's shadow darken over you nGather you silently under its jealous view nWhile I could only look on distraught nFighting to hold your live form in thought nKnowing we will never meet again nKnowing that time will never come again nnSafe times grow distant, days of few fears nIntangible memory mockingly leers nOnce faceless, now death stares me in the eyes nWith this Earth I have lost another tie nKnowing we will never meet again nKnowing that time will never come again nnA valediction to those friends now lost and gone nWe've fought bravely but time has always won nAll that we can seek is dignity in retreat nAcceptance of the fact of certain defeat nI feel so mortal and as fragile as you nDust claims dust and that way we will all go nInnocence is lost and can never be regained nThe act draws to its close nThe play will start again nnIn youth we imagined ourselves as gods nAll could be achieved, no matter the odds nImmortal and worthy of sacrifice nIn our favour the Fates loaded the dice nAnd they poured libations to our folly nThe pride of ever more distant glory nnFor us was slaughtered the fatted calf nWhen the heavens thundered, we did laugh nThe whole world was ours for the taking nThe tension in the air of our own making nAnd they poured libations to our folly nThe pride of ever more distant glory nnA valediction to those friends now lost and gone nWe've fought bravely but time has always won nAll that we can seek is dignity in retreat nAcceptance of the fact of certain defeat nI feel so mortal and as fragile as you nDust claims dust and that way we will all go nInnocence is lost and can never be regained nThe act draws to its close nThe play will start again nnSo all is vanity nRemember we are dust nEverything we are and all we do must nSurely atrophy, collapse, and fall nThough now we may stand so strong and tall nThe old alliances are soon forgotten nWith Olympian indifference the gods look on nnSoon upon us comes the death of dreams nThe rising dawn of the end of our time nWith it this mourning valediction nAnd the deadening loss of all conviction nThe old alliances are soon forgotten nWith Olympian indifference the gods look on
Valediction
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A Higher Unity All That I Have Ever Lost Betrayal Colours Revealed Desires of the Lonely Dies Irae Diomedean Exchange Dirt I Cannot Wash Dreams No More Drowning in the Dark Epilogue (Non Credo) Farewell My Love Fragility of Self (No Siren Eyes These) Lux Fiat Mea Culpa Mutual Faith My Beautiful Sustenance Painted Whiter Than White Pariah Polemic Samskara Shibboleth Smile of the Martyr Something of a Love Song Thalatta Thalatta The Ephemeral Bed of Fire Via Dolorosa Virgins Voluptuary Warpaint
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