Death came a stalking

In the realm of the heart which served as our guide For vanities sake we cheated and lied And all of the signs that lighted our way Now darkened and silent had lead us astray In our haste to proclaim that all must belong We abandoned our will to see right from wrong So we searched to the west, we searched to the east Yet ever within did we search there the least Now between every beat in a darkening hush Each step of retreat in a frightening rush And doubts every treason reflected in tears Did overlay reason with maddening fear Here Death came a stalking, unheeded, unsought And sold us the wares we had already bought So we pelted headlong into welcoming arms Whose offered embrace was enticingly warm We took all the things Death offered in spades And with them adorned our newly dug graves Of the angels that scry and mark every sin No stroke may belie nor ever forfend The promise averred yet never attained In souls so conferred with indelible stain