THE ELEVENTH ANGEL

First there was nothing, a distant heartbeat
The eastern forest, so dark
The angel rose from the western desert
Crashing thunder and splintering rock

No birds could be heard in the forest
To the south, they had all flown away
I stared at the cold eyes of winter
Locked in, I could not look away

Hope can get lost in the forest
In these dark days, the sun pulls away
I feel that which grows unfamiliar
The night bleeds into the day

To the western world, I am headed
Where the lost gods live and breath
In the west, the light is growing
A darkness descends in the east

My gaze, it is fixed on the mountains
On the light of the campfire glow
I'm not the only one searching out here
When the snow begins to fall

It paints the rock white in the highlands
On the peaks of the lost mountain roads
Crows circle high in the gold dust sky
And we let the fire grow

A new sun will rise on the desert
And our gaze, it will lift ever-high
Tonight, we will lay down our armor
And hold our hearts to the sky

Though winter descends on the desert
These mountains hold riches of gold
On the place where the earth fell to ruin
The eleventh angel rose

Though the winter holds us captive
Our hearts still remember the spring
New life begins in the darkness
First nothing, then a distant heartbeat.