We are all part of this game, aren't we?
This charade
This masquerade we love to play with one another

Why must we keep our true colours
Hidden behind our mask,
Our smiles?
Why must we muffle the whispers
Our broken hearts so desperately wants to let out

Why do we love to play this game
Even if our hearts tell us otherwise?

These smiles
They are not sincere
Not anymore
What happened?
What can we do?

Be there for each other.

Rolling clouds brushing broken skies
Swirl over tress drenched in autumn's glows
The leaves, like pieces of gems
Glistening in the setting sun
Remained pinned their branches
Their stems weakening

And it's under autumns trance
That I first saw the stars in your eyes

Two pieces midnight gloom
Carved from the void of darkened skies,
Caged within your Topaz irises,
Have the stars rippling inside
And the colours of a young autumn
Only made them seem to shine brighter.

I haven't stopped loving you since

It was yesterday that my past spoke to me
I heard familiar chimes ring
I heard the faded chords of songs I used to sing
Oh, how they twinkled
How the pulled me back to a realm only I knew
A world I long forgot

Where daydreams were once painted
Where nightmares now crawl

A world endlessly empty
Where I once spent most of my slumbers
Dancing with sparkling dreams
And waltzing to their tunes
Their ballads and lights lacing my dreams with hope

If only those dreams never came to an end
If only this world of mine had something left
For me to cherish
No fragments of wilting dreams
Their ashes stain my sleep
No more twisted song, no more broken chimes
Those songs live in the hearts of my nightmares

It was yesterday that my past spoke to me
As I ventured a place where my dreams used to be

Hidden in the masquerade of skyscrapers,
Muffled by the breaths of the city,
Live the kids of the blackened streets of the forgotten
In the Projects

Within the maze of crumbling buildings,
Lie the children who've seen the face of death
The ringing of police sirens
Are their morning alarm
And their lullaby before bed
They sing along to the anthem of gunshots
They paint the walls of their mind
With the blood of their fallen brothers

There is no escape
From the tyranny of the ghettos
Their fate is sealed.
Each of them is doomed to find themselves
On the wrong end of a gun
Held by the trigger-happy hands of a man in uniform
Or worse, killed by one of their own blood

Safety is but a dream
Under the lucid sleep of **** and Xanax
Dissipating through the grey streams of smoke
Chasing the broken skyline

Yesterday, I chased the stars
And what a miracle it was

Waltzing through the twilight
To the glimmer of distant stardust
And the song that wailed
From a heart I thought was dead

You chased the stars too
Hand in hand, we raced through a crystal night
With the dying winter's sun setting behind us
For a moment there, we remembered what innocence tasted like

And so we raced away
Deeper into the night
Excited for the brilliant summer days that awaited us

May I have this dance with you?
Shall we have this ballad
To the tune our hearts will sing
As we whirl beyond this realm of ours?

Can we be partners through time?
We can have the world as our stage
And the stars as our backdrop
Let us dance to the symphonies we will make
When our lips will indulge in each other's embrace
Let our passion be the architects of our ballad
Our waltz will be etched into the fabric of time
To be mimicked by the swirling of stars
And the pull of swelling waves
If you take my hand
And join your dance with mine,
The world will watch in envy
As our harmony will ring through time forever.

I missed  the sight of the stars in your eyes
Seeing the night swirl within your irises
Only to drown beyond your pupils.My heart races as the night stares me back

I missed you
I missed your glares
And the comforts they would bring
I missed your midnight gleam
Starring into me
Reaching into me
Playing with my heartstrings
And making a beautiful song of me
(Oh how the stars danced to those tunes)

I, a love struck stargazer,
Am trapped by a midnight's glare starring back at me
Trapped by the fires burning light-years away
Gently simmering before our lips touch at last

I missed the sight of the stars
And the comfort it would bring

Shifting, her eyes somehow darted around my glare
Escaping the chaos whirling trapped within my irises

Sifting, her passion leaked from the holes in her heart
And through the cuts life had left behind

Bellowed, my heart did
Piercing through her fleeting stares
Like a lonely siren echoing through a broken city night

I had to let her go
Or the chaos would consume her too

When will you return
Oh, explorer of grief and melancholy
When will you return from your trip
In the depths of despair
When will life finally release its deathly grip around you
So that you may smile that familiar smile of yours
So I may finally see the smile I live to see

No matter when you come
No matter how you return
Or in how many pieces
I'll be waiting
I'll be waiting to see your beautiful  self again
I'll be waiting to sink in the glimmer of your glares
No matter how dim it has become
I'll be waiting to indulge in the sweetness of your embrace
No matter how much life might have bittered its taste
To feel the touch of your palm
And any cuts life has left behind

And I'll be waiting to nurse back to health
To lighten your cosmic glares again
To sweeten the taste of your kisses
To wash away the dirt withing your cuts
To make you smile again

And even if you don't need me to heal
I'll be by your side
Smiling with you

I'll be here
I'll always be here

Who knew that a country could turn on itself
Letting its streets reek of blood?
Who knew that the world could sit back and watch
As a nation committed suicide?

Who knew that the hands of your best friend
The one you loved to hold walking to school
Would one day hold the weapon of your demise
Her blade dripping your neighbor's blood
Or your mother's
Or your uncle's
Or just another farmer's
You wouldn't be able to tell anymore

Imagine
The anthem of a race, with hate as their weapon,
Would be the cries of those slowly dying
Bleeding for one hundred days
And crying for one hundred nights
Imagine the cries of your family
And the chaos brewing outside your door
As your only lullaby

That was my once a place I called home

And it was with one fatal glare
From gleaming rings of emerald
That a lost soul found himself again

Please,
Just send me away to sleep
To dream an empty dream
And sleep an empty sleep
No matter what awaits me on the other side,
It can't be worse than memories ringing in my ear
Familiar sights slipping out of my grasp
And replaced with the nightmare of my past
The ache of my whithering body ringing ripping every tendon
Ringing through every bone
I want to turn away from my mistakes
Run away from those who left me
Turn away from their mental glare

I just want it to end for a bit
Please
I just want to sleep

I try to grasp reality again, but my mind falls short
Grief fills my lung
The waves swallow my cries
My heart flattened by the weight on my chest
And its pieces clogging my veins
The world goes dark

I wash ashore a shell of my former self