I held you in different light

Before the flood, the nudge, the rush, I had so little to carry

Gold colored days, their standstill sway, before the color fell away

Now I greet a life from its other side, too far away to reach it

Only the memory of it dancing across the bygone verdant earth

You were once lovely

You were once pure

I held you in different light

I held you in different light

Once hallowed ground, rot in the earth and poison in the water

Anything nice will give its goodness up in time, I know it well

Source of my shame, my hatred, my rage

All these selves sent to slaughter

To settle in among the rows in my garden of ghosts, I tend it well

You were once aching

For vibrant life

You once shone with

Such life inside

I held you in different light

I held you in different light