DEFEAT

Ash Cinders Use it all up, burn it all down, just don't let them take you alive To live in resistance-that means to give up Each day's bread for action, each night's sleep for dreams To hang by a thread in the vacuum Between what is and what is to be To lose Fight after fight, with to rest or respite And to win back the chance to take risks, to take flight The stakes that place life beyond price Yes we walk in darkness Under ten thousand stars We embrace our desires Even as they are torn from our arms That agony-that is our triumph That failure-that is our feat We are nothing and no one, fed on wanting alone And in wanting we're almost complete We arrive here embattled, pursued and forlorn Rich in stories that cannot be told or be borne There's so much I still want to say, want to do And I Know I won't b here for long To fight Loss after loss, cost upon cost And in the settling dust The aftermath and despair To pick up the pieces and set out once again from there Yes we walked in the darkness Under ten thousand stars And awoke lost in deserts There we trembled and paused We were dragged by our demons Through hell and heaven above We wanted so badly to love life so madly That wanting was almost enough And though when we arrived, almost nothing remained Of the visions that had guided us over horizons And all destinations seemed foreign and strange That agony-that is our triumph That failure-that is our feat We've raised anchor forever The world lies in our wake And that ache There is nothing so sweet