I cried aloud and winced in pain

From where I felt my heart might be

As cold as stone as once it was

Now warmed from love it might emerge

Although devotion has cracked its core

The stone has turned a-glow at last

As night gives way to pensive thought

Now tenderness is coursing through

Beating plainly through and through

Ironic as it might appear

Now broken, battered

Torn in pain

I cried aloud and winced in pain

Love has turned a stone to heart

In the empty hours
Through the hollowed night
Thick with loss of a different kind
Foreign ghosts speaking in tongues of old
Passing through silence that covers you
Bearing witness to quiet tears
When life is just beyond
And gentle hands too far to reach
You let go
For a moment

In the empty hours
Through the hollowed night
Thick with loss too much to bear
When time is silent
And Loneliness wraps her arms around you
Your troubled heart will break
A million pieces of you drifting
A constellation, perhaps?
Solace for the desolate
And in the midnight hour
It begins again

How magnificently you were born
Under brilliant Northern lights
Rising above the sea
With Black beaches
Electric blue waters
And Forever cascading waterfalls

Great Danes of long ago
With Ancient wisdom
Mightier than Gods of old
Brought to your shores
Powerless under your mighty volcanoes
Bowed their heads upon your site

How wondrous you are
Surrendering to your beauty
A secret they kept you
exquisitely they named you
Land of Ice

I am love
I am hate
I am everything in between
I am the whisper in the wind
A fleeting thought
A desperate prayer
I was and I wasn’t
Upon your lips
I am a moment.

I am crimson blood flowing violent love
Between your pillars
I claim you
And death may come.
I am unafraid
Miraculous,
I am you
Inside me.
Neither love
Nor hate
I am nothing in between
I am no longer
Not a figment
Nor a spirit
Not even a speck upon your universe

With mud and guts up to our knees
Push on Push on! To No Man's Land we go
Our letters have been written with last goodbyes
We climb the wall
We fight our sorrow
We fight the fear
We fight for what we do not know
With memories of you locked in our hearts
One final kiss and a prayer on our lips
We fight with all our strength
Through our sorrow and our fear

Push on Push on! To No Man's Land we go
Through mud and guts
The blood of those we do not know
Gunned down
We fall to our knees
Skyward we look
At heaven we pray
For whom we fought we do not know

My mother, thoughts of you swirling through my mind
I cry for you in this, my last hour
Please do not weep for me
But please forgive me
For whom I killed I do not know
For whom I died I do not know