Betrayal

By I.M. Ulysses

You failed me too quick
I screamed at her shroud
By turning your back
And being too proud

I fought so you'd live
But you then gave up
Trading my hopes
For this bitter cup

Why did you die
What caused this great ill
That made you surrender
And give up your will

I hate you, I love you
You degenerate creep
For turning my hopes
Into a dead heap

Rise up and stand
The die is not cast
For only a coward
Would give up so fast

I didn't do battle
For you to let go
I did it because
It's what I had too

Return to me now
Rise up from your bed
You're too important
To give up for dead

Find you a cause
Seek out a good reason
And join me in life
In this new spring season

I stand at your door
I knock at your grave
Believing in Christ
That He can still save

Arise now my love
Awake from this dream
Don't let this parting
Be all that it seems

For though you now dwell
In death's dark abode
I know that in life
I will you behold

For you were not born
To die in your sin
You're way too good
To let evil win

You think it's over
But it hasn't begun
The battle's just starting
Which will soon be won

I'm not afraid
Of what lies in store
For once I was like you
Dead and unsure

But the Father above
Has given me life
That will not surrender
To man's evil strife

His spirit now dwells
Within my own soul
Which gives me a power
That can conquer all

That power is yours
If you'd only try
So abandon your grave
In which you now lie

But you are too stubborn
To proud to let go
Of the death you desired
So to you I will come

Downward I'll march
Into the abyss
To take from the devil
The person I miss

There I will make
God's presence known
And snatch you away
From satan's kingdom

I'll wisk you upon
His firey horses
Through valleys of darkness
To the Kingdom of Roses

There He'll restore
What you once thought lost
And bring into memory
The price that it cost

Until then I'll stand
And at your grave rail
Awash in emotion
At this act of betrayal