Nights of desperation

Filled with longing, sorrow

No explanation

No tomorrow

Heart of stone

Molded and shaped

From being alone

With no escape

Necessary strength

Depleted and lost

Gone past the depth

Too large a cost

Succumbing to nothing

Darkness overtaking

Lost to the judging

Unsteady pacing

Glimmers of hope

Friendship, romance

Can be used to cope

With this minacious trance

Things will go dark

Things will go bad

But that one spark

Will forever stand

Engraved in the heart

Of the survivors

It will set them apart

Forever as warriors