Endurance

In the night-gloom of the bedroom In the dim stillness Awake, I reach for you I feel the bare skin's warmth I feel the rise and fall of your breath And I know gratitude for the fragile tether that holds you to this world In the calm that follows the storm Your hand will still be in mine We will walk through the wreckage Of works thought eternal By each other's side we will pass the ruin Of these things thought unchangeable The forest burns at lightning's touch The earth heaves with buried rage Skies blacken, seas rise The great empires of mankind crumble to dust Have no fear of darkness Rain will not dampen us Wind will not chill us Fire cannot burn us The veil of death cannot separate us Our love will endure Our love conquers all enemies