//------------------------------// // Grip of the Heart / Heal Me (Secrets of a Royal Guard) // Story: The Wanderings of My Mind // by Fiend from the Darkness //------------------------------// Grip of the Heart / Heal Me Secrets of a Royal Guard Grip of the heart and the vice of the mind Of the darkness and lonely, our soul is lined To help the weak is our purpose held true But in need of help, I am too Hardened of heart, though I might be It still harms my soul, in ways you can't see But admitting this would prove me weak So this help, I will never seek Admit to the need, I will never do So seeing my hurt, falls to you I suffer in silence, in ways no one sees Until it's too late, and I fall to my knees So come to my mind, and come into my heart See my wounds, so my healing might start Make me see, the lines I'm blind too Make me see, the lines stark and true Or descend into darkness, I will forevermore, Until I can't go lower, and stand at death's door The death of the soul, an empty shell in full Please don't let it happen, take my hoof and pull...