To the Storm - A Final Prayer

Alone I sit, I wait, and wonder Within this night I feel the thunder. So hard it strikes with crashing pain, Looking up, I weep against the rain. I watch the world through bitter eyes As lightning flashes through its lies. Trembling with the earth I shake, So deep this breaking storm will ache. Raging now, these waters violent, But how my anger rushes silent. The wind it howls with long despair, This grip I lose, my fingers tear. Though all my life I've held so tight, Tonight I'm just too weak to fight. I grasp for air as I'm pulled down, Flooded by pain my soul has drowned. The storm subsides into a calm, It seems as though the danger's gone. The shroud so dark, sunlight defeats Yet I, untouched within this peace. No light there is could save me now, So to the distant storm I bow. With the thunder, my heart will share One last beat, a final prayer. Oh God, please let me fade away, Another storm will rage today. God, take me now from where I lie, And gently with the clouds, I die.