Into the Night

I felt a chill and looked within today
To find that my heart has been gnawed away

Though I had felt a growing emptiness
And bit by bit an increasing distress
As if I were losing myself somehow
I find that I have been hollowed-out now

A hole in my soul and nothing I say
None of those clever things I used to do
Can make it any better anymore
Since from this open sore my life leaks too

As if someone forgot to close the door
Let in a chill wind which blew out the light

And what I was slipped out into the night

+Steven Curtis Lance



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