drowning in your sorrow you've known me all your life.

waiting in the shadows as you battle with your stife.

older than the yydrassil darkness is my home.

i am as a god to you, and yet i remain alone.

not a sinner nor a saint, yet something imbetween.

i will wash away your evils making your soul clean.

hell will not accept you now, you are not a vicious man.

heaven has been calling you since you have made your stand.

the darkness that has followed you has since begun to die.

but something else is hurting you, a fire burning deep inside.

you wish to go back to the earth, and see the ones you love.

to hold off on the heaven that you see so high above.

i sadly cannot grant your wish, it is your time to go.

but when they come, as all do, you'll be the first to know.

perhaps you have begun to see my true face and my goal.

the darkness that hides inside, but the goodness in my soul.

i wish that i could hold your hand, as you pass into light.

it seems that all who come this way fear the final night.

i have been, as i will stay. a friend amongst the fire.

if you wish to speak with me, i will heed that desire.

i am the last, and yet the first. the only of my kind.

and even if i wish to follow i must stay behind.

it has been, as it will stay, a pleasure to have known,

that i have been there by your side and watched as you have grown.

in this time before you leave you know me from your past.

a face that has watched from crowds, the first dream and the last.

goodbye my friend, you now must go, past the pearly gates.

say hello to heaven now, your afterlife awaits.