Into the Dark

Happy easy listening Sunday everyone.  I love this guy and his cover of the Death Cab for Cutie song.  Beautiful lyrics, beautiful voice.

“I Will Follow You Into The Dark”

Love of mine some day you will die

But I’ll be close behind

I’ll follow you into the dark
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white

Just our hands clasped so tight

Waiting for the hint of a spark

If Heaven and Hell decide

That they both are satisfied

Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs
If there’s no one beside you

When your soul embarks

Then I’ll follow you into the dark
In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule

I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black

And I held my tongue as she told me

“Son fear is the heart of love”

So I never went back
If Heaven and Hell decide

That they both are satisfied

Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs
If there’s no one beside you

When your soul embarks

Then I’ll follow you into the dark
You and me have seen everything to see

From Bangkok to Calgary

And the soles of your shoes are all worn down

The time for sleep is now

It’s nothing to cry about ’cause we’ll hold each other soon

In the blackest of rooms
If Heaven and Hell decide

That they both are satisfied

Illuminate the No’s on their vacancy signs
If there’s no one beside you

When your soul embarks

Then I’ll follow you into the dark

Then I’ll follow you into the dark

Left Behind

“mors vincit omnia” (Photo credit: Sinéad McKeown)

Cruel wind howls

Where he kneels as still as death

His grieving face is granite

His tears have turned to ice

Forsaken

Left behind in frozen darkness

With his stone cold broken heart

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This is in response to this weekends Trifextra challenge: 

..thirty-three word response using the word stone as one of your
thirty-three words.  You can use any
definition of the word that you’d like, but we are specifically looking for
serious, well-conceived entries.