in tears bereaved

• (bkz: dark tranquillity) (bkz: skydancer)
  
  beautiful, oh web of stars
  that looms amid the sons of earth
  enfolds me in thine sylvan arms
  that unity's vehement charms
  befalls a weary son of earth
  
  beautiful, in tears bereaved
  in sylphlike sadness, left to bleed
  bewailed upon a bed of thorns,
  impaled, a heart, on sorrow's horns
  a seeker's ode to thee i read
  my tearful soul thy mourning heed
  
  the stream that leaves thine open wounds;
  a life-blood licked by hungry hounds
  no verdant balm to soothe our wounds
  wherefore betwixt two worlds i'm torn
  ere thralled by sin i'll die - forlorn
  
  this slumbering world of shallow fools
  may one day clasp the cosmic hell
  lest journeymen by earthen rules
  bring forth the truth for which angels fell
  
  to the earth and sky and sea
  i call that thou may answer me;
  father of nature, of beast and mankind,
  my soul for thy love, my tears for thy pain
  ...an eden in fire,
  what lives shan't remain
  
  for when i live under a different sky,
  beneath the ethereal hills the clouds passing by
  remember the time of which i cried to be part
  remember these words, for they have flown
  from my heart.