Lamentations

Dust on the streets where the people used to sing

Now a shadowy silence clings to everything

City once golden now broken and torn

Crowned with despair where hope was once born

A widow's voice in the night does call

Her heart beats heavy like the city's fall

The elders weep and the children are still

The weight of the loss bends every will

From the ashes rises a question raw

Where was my defender against the law

No answer comes but the silence bleeds

Lamentations grabs my soul and my needs

The poets speak with their ink turned red

Lines of grief for the living and the dead

A prophet stands but his cries won't sway

The temple crumbles brick by brick away

Cry out loud the sorrow don't fade

Carve the pain in the stone God made

Oh Jerusalem your tears still stream

Echoes of a nightmare rupturing dreams

Streets of Zion crying so loud

Heartbeats heavy under a shadowed clouds

Walls of the city now tumble and break

Voices call out a sorrowful ache

Once we were golden now tarnished and lost

Kings and crowns gone what's the cost

We search for the mercy we'll never see

Grief's a heavy chain we can't set free

Cried at the altar with no words to say

Ashes and shadows lead the way

The books open wide with truth that bleeds

A lament for the soul the hunger it feeds

Tears in the dust echoes so wide

Pain in my chest no where to hide

Verses bleed out like ink on this page

This mournful song transcends every age

Lamentations