Fading sights
Labor that's all-encompassing
Dreariness in starlit plea

Endless nights
Timbre that can't align to bring
Stasis and finality

Men give themselves in compounding years
To mechanisms that can stoke their fears
Will the summit be reached before the
Bodies that slay subside their rage
And all of us enter a brand new age

Acknowledging truths and falsehoods now
With wizened experience to show me how
Outcomes of limitless potential
Where all ones shame, it pays to quell
By escaping the casting of a difficult spell

Chorus:
Disturbances abound
And the acumen fails as what's swallowed begets us
Will this new venture yield the nectar I have asked to
Guide me
Higher
Seeds of such doubt grow as options begin now to thin
Priorities of sound
In the shadows at bay are morality's opponent
Denying distraction, I open my heart and pray that you
Guide me
Higher
Cautiously approaching solutions that echo the past

Pain of anticipation
Released in acceptance
Simple need to try
In succession

Madness that must not ensue

(Chorus repeats)

Solemnly swearing to uphold what's codified
Persisting stress where one's joy is not unified
And for a time, addict's vices: they are denied

As the elevation sets in from a parallel confinement

Resolute action encompassing consciousness
Come motivation to bring in new confidence
Walking the tightrope o'er relapse that's bottomless

May this new lifespan be worthy of judgement in kind