serenity painted death lyrics

Returned from a hibernal dream
No longer by my side
Voices fell like marble

Ripped from my embrace
Melinda reflected in shafts
Gone, all that would linger
Met the earth in silence
Red line round her neck

White face, haggard grin
This serenity painted death

Clenched fist from the beautiful pain
With a halo of bitter disease
Black paragon in lingering breath
Saw her fading, blank stare into me

Darkness reared its head
Took control, claiming my flesh
Tearing within the reeling haze
Piercing rage, perfect tantrum
Each and every one would die at my hand
Choking in warm ponds of blood

At last, weak and torn I went down
Drained from strength, flickering breath
Flanked and barred in destiny's end
Underneath with hope in laches
Came with the moon
The wayward in conscious state
Swathed in filth, any would betoken
Starlit shadows on the wall
Finally there to collect me
From the bowels of sin