Downwards, search and you shall find Certain as the setting sun was so descent But the deeps are old and without end There's more than darkness in them More than a heart may hold More than man may learn Before the eyes of a God In judgement stern Down there You shall reap what you have sown There flow the rivers of our being out of sight Into never ending night All we have ever known All that was and is to come And all which never came to pass In that abyss alike extinguished Down there All that a heart may hold All that man may learn In that piercing light To ashes turn Yet without fear We must journey there And stand erect Before the lidless stare