Requiem: Missa Pro Defunctis

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine;
et lux perpetuam luceat eis.
Exaudi orationem meam;
ad te omnis caro veniet.

Sometimes I sit and wonder

How many stories went untold,

Within these halls,

Behind these walls;

What horrors went before.


Sometimes I sit and wonder

About the wandering souls,

Who fought the strife,

Who clung to life

With no promises ahead.


Sometimes I sit and wonder

How many did wither and die,

Within these halls,

Behind these walls;

No solace in life did find.


Sometimes I sit and wonder

If any mourned their passing;

Or if were quick forgot

Once buried in the plot

Beneath the surface of the soil.


Sometimes I sit and wonder

How those of normal psyche

Can mercilessly laugh and rally

At those without ally-

Those in tribulation, deemed without good sense.


Sometimes I sit and wonder

About the wandering souls

Within the asylums who did pass

And watch the world behind the glass;

Tormented by the terrors of their mind.


Sometimes I sit and wonder

How so important could I dismiss,

That no matter how quick forgot

Once in a plot

By the sane outside the walls;

He who notices the sparrow small

As it falls to fly no more

Has not forgot

the wandering lost;

He sees and remembers all.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine;
et lux perpetuam luceat eis.
Kyrie eleison.
Christe eleison.