| A bed of stone | |
| To wake upon | |
| To a world long dead | |
| May this sight strike me blind | |
| Lest I envy the dead | |
| Let my bones melt to earth | |
| To cease and forget | |
| In brittled cloth | |
| A grave of rock | |
| Above the world's remains | |
| [Qorban:] | |
| "I broke the surface of a lifetime of sleep, | |
| Or so I felt. For minutes I couldn't will my aching bones to move, | |
| To rise from my bed of stone, or my gaze to bend from the tomb of rock above me. | |
| I willed my body over the edge and crushed to the floor below. | |
| Through a mist of pain I started to see: I was imprisoned. | |
| A forboding fright dawned in me, as I slowly struggled to free myself from my own grave. | |
| It seemed my limbs would burst before I was free, | |
| But finally at the very end of my strength I could see the world beyond, | |
| And to my horror - It was no more!" | |
| I have lost to sleep | |
| Man's final days | |
| Now to awake | |
| Just to be tortured by grief |