I lie with blackened chest Tears, dense, welling in swollen eyes Resplendent in winter´s ash My God be upheld in our distress My cries fill the air Domine libera manes defunctorum Winter envelopes I lie with blackened chest Tears, dense, welling in swollen eyes Resplendent in winter´s ash Where is my God, in the dull ear of night? With tuneless voice, a requiem sung Wailing and breadless, alone On a flower strewn earth Where is my God? Look at me, upon my bruised head Taste my ruin, my ashen soul I tread alone Winter envelopes