Sapphire - The Afterimage

I'll awaken

The solitude of this mountain becomes constant

The walls embrace me in their calm

Gusting winds breathe around me

My container a vessel of stillness balanced upon stone and earth

With too many stories for a lifetime

If I blink the vessel breaks

Shattering the illusion of freedom

With the flash of an eye it's gone

Shattering the illusion of freedom

With the flash of an eye it's gone

I open my eyes to stare into yours

My heart marks this time forevermore

But now I'm between a flicker of fantasy

Struggling now struggling now to make sense of this

Belief without conviction

The world in my mind could be real where thoughts bring solace

I listen I listen

Over the dull song of birds

Over the sounds in the distance

Over the sirens of the lost

Silence is what I wish for

I open my eyes to stare into yours

My heart marks this time forevermore

But now I'm between a flicker of fantasy

Struggling now struggling now to make sense of this

I've been altered by staring into infinity

I open my eyes to stare into yours

My heart marks this time forevermore

With this I'll be remembered so I can die and truly be born

I open my eyes to stare into yours

My heart marks this time forevermore

But now I'm between a flicker of fantasy

Struggling now struggling now to make sense of this