The darkness of night,
The deep abyss of pain,
It swallows me whole
Until nothing remains.
I cannot escape it,
There’s no way out.
I cower in shadows
With nothing but doubt.
There is no light,
Not the tiniest spark of hope.
I’m surrounded by sadness
As I wander alone.

A dark path lies ahead of her,
Should she flee or should she go?
No way to know how it would end,
If it leads to success or just a dead end.

They say heroes are brave,
That they never cry,
That they aren’t afraid,
Even if they may die.

I don’t think that is true,
Everyone fears something,
Even if it isn’t losing one’s life,
There sure is a thing.

They say heroes are brave,
That they’re never afraid,
But how could one stand out
Who has never struggled with doubt?

Only when you’re afraid
You can truly show courage,
You can overcome doubt
And become a hero.

As the rain is pouring down
It washes away my tears
For I cried alone at night again
While unable to sleep.

Do you hear the rain’s sad song?
It’s softly spoken words?
When all the other sounds have stopped
You hear it crying out.

It cries for all the people
Who can no longer cry alone,
Because throughout their life
They have been all on their own.

My demons haunt me in my dreams,
I can’t escape them, I cannot flee.
They lay before me all I fear
And remind me of it until the tears
I held back so long drop to the ground.
They’re falling so freely, hid only by rain
‘Cause the rain’s the only one
Who’s crying with me.

Lately none of my dream remain,
As I open my eyes, they fly away,
Can’t remember one of them,
Wish I could remember a soothing dream.

I put on a smile,
So that you think I’m happy,
But it is all fake
And it’s all for your sake.

You think that I’m fine,
That there’s nothing amiss,
But it's all just a facade,
To hide the pain I feel.

What is a friend?
It’s not easy to say.
You’d need too many words
To explain what you feel.

That's why you have to look into your soul
To see what friendship is like,
How a friend makes you feel
When they look into your heart.

I hide in the darkness
To block out my past,
I hide from the day
To keep my mind sane.

Into the night I wander,
It's darkness that I seek.
I want to escape the thoughts
That are nearly drowning me.
But even the pitch black night
Cannot block out the things
I think about each night
And that haunt me in my dreams.

Do you see that little bird, that's sitting on his own?
It's different, that's why its friends are few,
It's singing all alone.

If I fall to my knees,
Mess everything up,
If I lose all hope
And am reigned by despair;
Will you be there,
Will you help me to stand?
Will you be strong for me
When I am all spent?
Or will you abandon me,
Like all of the others?
Will you give me your hand,
My friend?

My mind is a cage
To keep my thoughts safe
So I don't blurt things out
That are best left unsaid.

No one would know of the battles they fought,
Their tear tracks long dried after they cried alone again at night.
Their demon woke in the darkness, taunting and teasing,
Their mind fought them fiercely, trying not to give in.
Night for night they struggled, they didn’t want to cease fighting,
but even the strongest would give in,
If their sanity was leaving.

I hold back the tears that want to spill over,
My light slowly grows dimmer as my heart grows colder.
The world all around me, just dark shades of grey;
I cannot escape it, not even a day.

There are screams in the darkness,
Exhaustion and pain,
The air’s suffocating,
No space to turn.

Negative feelings,
My deepest fears
They’re surfacing now,
And I cannot flee.

I open your eyes,
Thinking waking would help,
But I start to realize,
That it isn’t a dream.

I learned how to lose, how to stand all the pain,
Even though I could scream, I act all the same.
You tell me I’m brave, that I have to stay strong,
But what you aren't seeing
Is my dying soul.

The night is dark and full of terrors,
Demons waking in the shadows,
Armed with claws and fletching teeth,
Spreading loneliness and fear.

I wear a mask at school,
I wear a mask at home.
I wear it all the time,
To pretend I don't feel alone.

I love the night for the stars in the sky,
Yet I hate it for the thoughts that come to mind...
Thoughts of doubt while sleep won't find me,
Thoughts of inadequacy weighing on me.
That's why I lie awake, wishing to see stars instead
And I ask myself a question:
Just when will these thoughts end?

When my quill touches the paper
My soul mixes with ink,
It forms letters and writes poems,
About the storm inside of me.

Just ‘cause I’m not going the way you intended for me,
Doesn’t mean I’m wrong, doesn’t mean I lost sight.
I still walk my path, though it’s not easy to see
If it’s leading right, or I’m getting left.
But what you can’t see, what you all forget:
I may be wandering, but I’ve not lost my way.

Do you know the feeling of being sad,
Even though you don’t know why anymore?
I do, and like I just said;
I‘ve got no clue why.

They say that eyes are a window to the soul,
They say that they show the feelings no one can control,
They say that they betray what we feel
And that they are proof we're alive, even if that’s not how we feel.

I saw it all in slow-motion,
the sword pierced your heart.
You fell down, but I caught you,
my heart was tearing apart.

I killed your attacker,
showed no mercy to him.
I sank down to my knees,
unable to accept you were gone.

I held you close to my chest,
my tears staining your clothes,
I sat there ‘til nightfall,
when your soul had long left.