unquiet and burdened remorseful, racked by doubt can you shed the painful cast and be reborn assailed and beleaguered embraced, sacrificed can you shed your painful past and be reborn from a night never ending from stillness devoid of light we are alive vast horizons roll in dissipating the mist unimpeded to shine from the deepest of trenches from the darkest of times alive! and it beggars belief the way it elevates our levity in the face of defeat