I've carried hope for far too long
These wounded dreams I can't release
Flowers rot beneath my feet
Gloom's once more encircled me
I loath the things I see each day
This infernal world's made my heart weak
Like a novel that lacks an end,
The narrative has now lost it's luster
In this dark, I seek no more
Suffering is all I've found
Stuck beneath an apathetic sky
Leave me here
No angel wings
The tears in my eyes
Just won't cease
From now until eternity
I breathe the pain that lives within

Her hair was fiery
Like the rebel soul that burned within him
Her eyes filled with wonder
He truly did revere them

Each day, they picked their battles
In the skirmish known as life
Though challenges besieged them,
Their young souls were rich with fight

And each night,
They submerged themselves in starlight
Drawing up their battle plans for an incoming tomorrow
Warming each others hearts
With the stories and smiles that they shared

For alone they used to wander
Until solace found a way
It lived in every moment
From which their romance grew

The tragedy is
there's a prison in my mind
all the thoughts that lurk there
are ones I wish were never mine
they etch into my heart
the scars I wear so bright

They whisper wicked stories
of things that never happened
or maybe things that did
things that shouldn't create ripples
in the current in my life
but here I lay in bed
stuck awake at night
eyes cutting blankly
through the nothingness of my cold and dark bedroom