This one is from my Fort 9 character, Keva. She broke almost as many rules as the character when I was 13, but not quite.
She's also the character through whom I met my beloved husband.
The song is rather less happy than the introduction.
Darkness
Words and melody by Hope Erica Ring (about 1990)
Let me rest in Darkness, that I may bear the Light.
Blind my eyes a moment, that know too much of sight.
Cover my eyes
My world disguise
In blackest shades of Night--
Let me rest in Darkness, that I may bear the Light.
Let me rest in Silence, that I may bear to hear
The sweetness and the harshness that pound against my ears.
Let singing cease
Grant this surcease
And let no voice come near--
Let me rest in Silence, that I may bear to hear.
[bridge]
One glimpse of perfect emptiness,
I hunger for it still…
One glimpse of all the Peace I’ve been denied.
Between my past and future,
Between my day and night,
A void to swallow all the tears I’ve cried.
Take my Senses from me, let me no longer feel
The presence of a world that I would not acknowledge real.
I’ve hurt too much
Let nothing touch
The soul I would conceal--
Take my Senses from me, let me no longer feel.