My Voice

I've lost my voice and must needs find it
It's gone far and far away from here
Hidden beneath the waves of some great sea
Flying among the highest of those whitest peaks
Far and far away from me

Something inside my chest has taken it from me
A most devious unexpected enemy
The truest hindrance on a path to meet my foretold destiny/
And so I search somewhere deep inside
Reaching for that hidden part that will gift me the courage to seek/

But my searching is untrue and weak
For as something begins to sing back to me
A barrier is erected of untold mystery
Surely there must be a way to set if free
From this enemy who so ravishes me

And suddenly a voice rises up like a bird to flight
It streams from my chest with melody and might
A chorus with the power of a savage flood crashes uncontrollably/
But some dread creeps into the corner of my mind
For see the voice cries out so rabidly and is utterly foreign to me/

Ambition reeks so pungently
From each note of the dirge it sings
For this requiem will surely be for me
If I standby so Idly
While this monster rises up in me

For this voice cares not for the havoc that is wreaks/
But it would be a lie to say that its words have no affect on me/
For certain hatred is hard to find
As each soul is without blameless purity
So my conscience quakes without perfect surety

A harbinger appears to me in this moment of despair/
It calls out oh so frantically
A warning of what will come to be
If I give in so heedlessly
So this truth the muse confides desperately

Some remnant of what's left of me
Struggles to quench the flood unceasingly
As the warning rings out fleetingly
Will I remember that it is a trap set for me
For this voice surely is some other fiends

The remnant fights heroically
Against that darkest part of me
My soul is split asunder
For the voice coalesces so wantonly
Wiping clean my sweet memories

So the darkness dawns on light
Innocence is crushed with spite
And it begins to grow a part of me
Until the battle fades devastatingly
And the voice is all that's left

A song of victory is sung
But my ignorance is complete
For a veil before my eyes is placed
By my wretched heart and soul
The conquest has ended with finality

Now when the sea beckons longingly
And the mountains fly up endlessly
My ears detect a faint recollection
Like a precious thing is lost to me
But I have no thoughts of what it could be