A helpless heart,
A fading smile.

The light inside your soul,
Covered in shadows,
Fighting to break away.

This fissure of nothing,
Engulfing my light,
Holding me tight.

I scream for more,
Muffled by the nothingness,
Silenced by shadows.

They say love conquers all,
Even the most broken of men.
They say love fills your soul,
Even the most soulless of all.
They say love makes you whole,
But what of the broken?
What of the ones who fell in too deep?
The ones who gave their all,
Every day of the week?
What of the ones who feel so deep?
What of the ones who had been betrayed?
They never tell you what love does after it's gone.

I find myself at a constant loss;
A loss for what I want to say and what's appropriate.
A loss of sounding too insecure, or just insincere.
A loss of what is right and what I think sounds wrong.
I think too deep,
And my thoughts disappear.
I'm at a loss of expression,
Although the words are there.
I'm at a loss of trust,
Thought I don't think it's fair.
Sometimes I find the words in my mind,
Then I think about if it just sounds too weird.
I've been called crazy, and I watch what I say.
With you, it was different.
I could just be myself.
I could be weird,
You said it didn't matter.
Yet you turned it around,
And made me sound bad...
I'm crazy, insane, need mental help bad.
I'm at a loss of trust,
Look what you did to me.
I'm at a loss,
Plain and simple.
You did this to me.

A fleeting image,
Black to white.
Dissolving into the night.
A lingering smile,
Burnt upon your soul.
Never leaving your twisted mind.
Haunting my mind,
Pulling at my soul.
Eating away from my light.
A black abyss,
Cradling my soul.
Haunting me, pulling me.
A fleeting image of light,
Corrupted by the dark.