The Flight of Tempest Reigned

Upon a glorious night A burning fire lit upon my unrented spine Deafened by fleeting sight I flee the home that never was quite mine Crushed in garish fight Within the corridor I dare to flee Blinded by his might While all the sad spirits return to me Oh Tempest, you blow in me hope Of sorrow more true than any other light Oh Tempest that guides my departed To your soul so bright Rejoining each of us—the broken-hearted Upon that vaporous eve Enclosed in bond beyond mortal grief Lost to the foggy reef The fog that so lingers in these glistening eyes That vapor drew me near Bedazzling more than the moonlit mirror To where I see him fly Twas a heart-reaching place I always fear Oh Tempest, you blow in me hope Of sorrow more true than any other light Oh Tempest that guides my departed To your soul so bright Rejoining each of us—the broken-hearted Between the beat of my breast A heart that beats only for him He slumbers in the clouds The clouds that pour my poignant prose Beyond the darkened seas The wind does carry the scent of his bequest Within the folding of the storm I cease to rest Oh Tempest, you blow in me hope Of sorrow more true than any other light Oh Tempest that guides my departed To your soul so bright Rejoining each of us—the broken-hearted To him my sorrows lay And fall into the arms of strangers' trembling spine As light and pain fall gray Twas there they grayed and blended with the rain Twas there they grayed and blended with the rain Twas there they grayed and blended with the rain