With You Removed - Portals

Standing at the gravesite

Of everything that had shaped me as a person, as a human being

A soliloquy for who I used to be

Everything I had come to know

Was just manipulation of a fragile soul

Your hands guided the strings in an eloquent display of artistry

But then you cast your stones

Left me for the wolves, empty and alone

The shattered fragments

Of what remain glisten with the dance of a burning flame

Nothing to stand for, nothing to prove

Baptized by fire, born again, but with you removed