Past Shadows Lyrics - Chapter Iii - Agathodaimon

Now far I, I am from you before my fire alone 

And read again the hours that so silently have gone 

And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide 

That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died 

The shadows of the past swift stream across life's floor 

The tale of all times, nothing that now exist no more 

While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind 

And sadly spins the fiber of the story in my mind 

I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold 

Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold 

About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply 

And it seems you want to speak to me, yet only sigh 

And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace 

And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace 

Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb 

Forget the joy that was, but nevermore will come 

The shadows of the past swift stream across life's floor 

The tale of all times, nothing that now exist no more 

While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind 

And sadly spins the fiber of the story in my mind 

And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace 

And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace 

Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside 

For now I'm old and lonely, and maybe you have died