Pounding heart, burning lungs
Wind violent against skin.
Throat dry, tongue dry
Darkness settles in.
Can’t see, invading fear
Nothing to lead the way.
Smell of sweat, nothing else
Keep running through the pain.
Voices cease, silence settles
Footsteps echoing behind.
Out of breath, anxiety rise
Nowhere left to hide.

I’m standing on a ledge, looking down on what I’ve done
The city’s burning, ashes rising to the mourning sun
The flames are dying as the bodies slowly fall
Slumped in ditches, on the street, against the city’s walls
The only ones left living are running, never looking back
Their memories are still burning from the night of the attack
What have I done?
To the people that have had none
What have I done?
The corruption has only just begun.

When I was younger
I didn’t really understand
How precious
Words are
Or what they mean
Especially the word
Forever

When I was younger
Time dragged on
And boredom
Made time tedious
So I spent
A lot of my childhood
In other worlds

When I was younger
Things mattered more
Because
Life was more exciting
There were firsts
And mistakes
But adventures always

Now that I’m older
Things don’t matter as much
Because
Life’s a lot more complicated
Where mistakes
Are irreversible
And everything always ends

All of us wish we’d had just a little more time
Spend forever with the ones we love
But when we’re young
And time slows down
Because it’s on our side
We don’t understand that
Forever will always end.

Here I lay, arms crossed over chest
Slumber sustains, but I get no rest
Wicked, vile deeds give birth to new pain
Reliving my nightmares, I’m going insane
Feelings stir; I’ve forgotten I’ve had before
All too wrong for me to longer ignore
They linger here, in dark spaces of my mind
Pulling me closer, leaving the light behind
Causing darkness to be my home.

Could you smile for me one more time my dear?
When I see you happy everything just becomes so clear.
Could you smile for me one more time my dear?
Because it’s killing me, every time you shed a tear.
And I can't take this any more my dear,
Watching you break under all of this fear.
Just rest in my arms, where my dear, you belong,
And I promise that for the both of us, I'll be strong.

And on this one night,
She closed her eyes tight,
Thinking of what might,
Give this darkness light.

And there you were,
By her side in a blur,
Completely unsure,
With your heart as a cure.

Together you fought,
For the happiness you sought,
And accidentally caught,
In a love you never thought.

It's in dreams and in stories
Lost in tales and long ago glories
Reaching out through time
Reciting itself in rhyme
Marking history like a stain
Blood, sweat, death, and pain
Countries go to war in its name
And it always wins, knows the game
Mistaken for love and hope
It's the human condition; how we cope
Answering a question with anything but truth
That alone should've been enough proof
That in God we should fear
Our voices, He does not hear
Prayers fall silent
Backs stay bent
Aching
Breaking
Shaking
From all that He's taking
Only in death
May we take a breath
And rest
Arms crossed over chest
Buried in the Earth
Where we start the rebirth.