In a dreadful vigil here lies
The last breaths of a great ember
Nigh on midnight, we'll have to go
Longer and we’ll hear the voices
The going will be tough, I know
But we have no other choices
You linger here, what woes, my friend
Befall you on this final night?
There is more beauty in the end
Than in all the former twilight.
Can we not stay, march tomorrow?
When the sun knocks, and all have slept
Come dawn you'll see only sorrow
That through this night you will have wept.
Better now while still we wonder
What there is yet to come about
Wish it was not night we’re under
Turning the bitter-sweet to doubt.
These faces burn so brightly here
To think come dawn it will be them
Gone darkening to some frontier
That in ignorance we condemn.
Perhaps we could save just a few
And see them in the morning still;
To reminisce on our adieu?
Or let this be a slower kill?
Let’s call this what it truly is
The day has made its subtle fade
Beautiful as the dwindle is
This is not the promise we have made.
Though I wish there was another
We had agreed this was the way
One would die when did the other
So that we both could meet midway
Know what lived was truly living
Let die before it knows it’s dead
So there need be no forgiving
So that we might forget instead
If ever you forget this night
We may as well have never come
If I remember, I will spite
The man you have made me become.
I thought we were of the same mind
That we would slip into the veil
A dream gone dreamt, the pristine kind
Not the desolation we hail
You asked me that and I agreed
Elsewise this never would have been
But now we are to do the deed
And I wish I’d said no back then
Take this, it's been a sure tether
Do you not see the issue there?
Let's suffer this last together
Fine, we’ll join them in darkling fair
Of all the fleeting fireflies
They saved a few to remember