For Everything We Were

I began removing bits of chain

Started with sanctification;

The hallucination of proclamation

That answered all creation.

When the battle was over

Was I even still standing?

Earth didn’t move for a minute

We even thought of disbanding.

Cries heard the forest have ceased

Yet we grovel for the moment.

Sheer destiny takes us to mountaintops

We never thought we’d endure

Let’s speak of nothing but torture

For everything we were.