Repose - What We Do In Secret, Garrett Russell

The new life inside of you

Say goodbye to all we knew

Nothing could have prepared us for this

Our children lost in the womb

We will remember

We will remember you

The quiet death

Our broken hearts

Our tears will fall

As we silent mourn

The new life inside of you

Gone now, leaving empty rooms

I wish that I knew what to say or do

I was quiet then, but know this is for you

Spirit

Form and move

Grow, flourish, bloom

Breath, essence, idle sleep

Decline, retreat, cease

Shapeless repose

Stillness

Death: the final repose

The new life inside of you

Gone now, leaving empty rooms

I wish that I knew what to say or do

I was quiet then, but know this is for you

Extrapolate the sun

Climb to God on red-hot rungs

Calloused palms burnt on Sunday qualms

I’m leaning on my wounded god

Sons of daughters, rise and die

Hear me beat, anachronistic heart of mine

I learned every hell has a name

These are the pains we cannot change

So wearing thin, consume my skin

I’ll wear it then

Is this the place where grace comes in?

Bloom, flourish, forgive, repeat

My wounded god, suddenly asleep

The new life inside of you

Gone now, leaving empty rooms

I wish that I knew what to say or do

I was quiet then, but know this is for you

In time, we will grow stronger

But tonight, strength is far from our hands

Life has come

But I think of you so often

Who would you be if we could have known you then?

The quiet death

Our broken hearts