How could I make any of this up
My imagination
Doesn't strain that far
I'm telling you what I saw
I'm telling you
What you ought to know...
There in the distance
There stands my faith
Naked and shivering
There stands my faith
Abandoned by incompetence
Forsaken through malaise
I saw the rising tide
Blot out the sun
I saw the tangled forest
Ooze malevolence
I heard the subsonic groaning
From faith beset by fear
I heard the keening song
Announcing fear triumphant
I felt the ground give way
To the burden of my sin
I felt the heavens sigh
With acknowledged regret
And there in the distance
My faith collapsed upon itself
And in that instance I knew
What I was never to be
I knew fate's tenuous embrace
Would soon chains become
And the tender ministrations
I so longed for
Would come from the claws
I'd tried vainly to escape