Tarnished Silver -

Sleep, my tarnished silver

Let me dull you once again

And let our battle end

Sleep, my snowless winter

Let me warm you once before I go

And I’ll pretend to know and understand

Sleep, my fallen cedar

Let me have your weakened pride to hold

And join my barren soil

Sleep, my aimless river

Let your torrent rest against my shore

And leave me what was washed away before

Time’s been kind to you, my love

As the world had never been

Kinder than to me

Strange, the things that we regret

You wanted me to leave

I found enough to give you that

Sleep, my darkened chapel

Let me kneel before you now, as then

Unworthy as I am

Sleep, my flameless shadow

Let me cool the lingering fires of old

And carry only ashes in my soul

Sleep, my tarnished silver…