Is it dark
Where you are?
Is it as dark as here?
Where the light is fading
Behind the fog
And the clouds
Grumble and creak in the sky
While the lightning is nowhere to be seen.

Is it quiet
Where you are?
Is it as quiet as here?
Where our pleas
Sink below the ground
And the music
Drifts away
On the cold, sharp breeze
While the shouts and cries rise above us all.

Is it peaceful
Where  you are?
Because it sure ain't peaceful here.

The clouds are at war.
Our noise is drowned out
By their cries
And screams of pain.

Where the light has left
In search of a better place
A just, forgiving, place.

The peace left long ago
Leaving just a lingering,
An impending
Sense
That the end will soon come
Sure enough
The sun will soon give in
As we did long ago.

And so,
I just want to know,
How is it where you are?
What is it like to be happy?
Would you teach me one last time?
Before the sun disappears behind the clouds once again?
Oh, I do so love to see the light of the sky.