"SIFTING SANDS", by athenagoddesss Subscribe to rss feed for athenagoddesss

TIME TICKS BY
AS THE WAVES CRASH
AGAINST A SIFTING SHORE
THEY BEAT AND THRASH

THE SANDS SHIFT
WITH EACH LASTING BREATH
IT CARRIES MY HEART
TO A SWEET AND LONELY DEATH

THE WIND WHISPERS YOUR NAME
ACROSS A VAST AND EMPTY SEA
IT TAKES ME TO ANOTHER PLACE
SETTING MY SPIRIT FREE

YOU CARESS ME WITH YOUR VOICE
THE TENDERNESS YOU GIVE
AS THE SEA REACHES HER PEAK
YOU SHATTER WHAT IT IS FOR ME TO LIVE

I SEEK YOUR PASSIONATE EYES
THE LOOK OF SWEET TENDERNESS
YOU OBLITERATE MY ISOLATION
AS I TAKE UPON YOUR FORGIVENESS

LIKE THE TIDES
YOU ROLL BY MY SOUL
SEARCHING AND SEEKING
WHAT WILL MAKE YOU WHOLE

THE WATER CASCADES
DOWN THAT LONELY WALL
I WATCH YOU SWIM
AS MY HEART BEGINS TO FALL

I SEEK YOU 
THROUGH THE EMPTY NIGHT
WATCHING YOU MOVE
WITH ETERNAL FLIGHT

YOUR EYES
TELL MY SINGLE SORROW
I SUCCUMB TO YOU
AND WHERE YOU GO I WILL FOLLOW

THE SANDS SIFT 
BENEATH MY FEET
LIKE A MOMENT IN TIME
OUR TWO HEARTS MEET

THE EVERLASTING LIGHT
SHINES UPON YOUR SWEET SKIN
DRIBBLING LIKE DEW
ONCE THE SUN BEGINS

THROUGH TIME
OUR SOULS TAKE FLIGHT
WHAT WAS ONCE OUR DESTINY
HAS NOW BECOME OUR PLIGHT

WHAT WE ONCE WERE 
AND WHAT WE HAVE BECOME
WE SIFT THE SANDS
AND BECKON WHERE WE COME FROM

LIKE THE SHORE
WE SIFT THE SANDS OF TIME
WHISPERING OUR DREAMS
WHEN THE WINDS BEGIN TO CHIME

WE CARRY OUR SPIRITS
TO THE LAND OF LOVE
LIKE ALL OTHER FATES
THEY COME FROM THE HEAVENS ABOVE

SIFT NO MORE
YOUR SWEET SORROW
FOR WHERE YOU GO
I WILL ALWAYS FOLLOW...
Posted: 2010-09-26 22:56:39 UTC

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