I cry a tear of hope but it is lost in helplessness
   The darkness eats away at the very embers of my soul
   For the deepest love I had has dissolved before my eyes
   My sorrow is bleak, I beg for deliverance
   Lord, in your mercy, hear my prayer
   All emotion is consumed by an inner silence
   All grief is unassuaged by disconsulate tears
   I want for nothing, I live for nothing
   I am waiting to die but I am afraid of dying
   Lord, in your mercy, hear my prayer
   Crestfallen emotion
   Wallowing in guilt
   Drowning for evermore
   Falling deeper into fear
   My inner self is now
   a sleeper of stone
   Help me.