I found a box full of sound,
In the silence I heard it sing in my mind,
Your memory gave me a lot to hum about,
I will play for you something from my heart.

Eyes opened to a new world,
Limbs moving in excitement of life,
Light, it feels so good,
It feels good to feel,
This world around,
What is old, what is new,
Nothing means anything,
Everything just is,
I am born.

The light shows me my makers,
The dark puts me to sleep,
I know not what fear is,
I know not what evil means,
Pure, impure, good, bad,
These words I am being taught,
I laugh when I am happy,
I cry when I am not,
Everything is so big,
So vast and open,
I don't need anything but my parents' love.

I grow up to learn all that I was not,
I am taught good, selflessness, love, happiness, patience,
By being shown what is bad, selfish, hatred and sadness, anger,
The world around me is made on the planet called earth,
Ignorant of the world outside,
What are friends, enemies? What is there to fight for?
I am a man, a being, I am given this existence,
I am given this world,
When did the world come to dominate me?

I have a child in my arms,
I wish to show him a free world,
I remember who I was when I was born,
Not a name, not a job, not a son, not a husband, not a friend, not afraid,
I knew not what fear was,
The world is mine to have,
Where it places me is irrelevant,
I am a being, in my birth I accept,
All that makes us human continues.

Reminiscing what had been,
Of the times when by your eyes,
Only I was seen.

Never will I hold their attention, never again,
Never will I have that affection, ever again.

I wish I could change what we have come to be,
I wish we could still be us,
Not just you and me.

When I asked you how you were doing,
If you were well,
Your fake laughter belied everything,
Of the pain inside it did tell.

I see how hard you work to convince me,
But I see through the hypocrisy.

I wish I could still tell you everything is going to be okay,
I know this separation makes it harder for you every day.

I wish I could change what we have come to be,
I wish we could still be us,
Not just you and me.

Would you stay for a while, if I asked you to?
Would you frown, or would you smile,
When I say, you’re the best part of my day?
Would you mind if I told you every time I see my phone,
I’m searching for your name to show up?
My every moment of happiness with you I want to share,
I hope you don’t get scared when I say,
In my mind all the time you’re there

I can’t seem to shut the noises in my head,
Replaying all the words said,
I’ve been trying hard to avoid it all
From the moment the fight began to the end,
But this friction is wearing me out,
It’s making me sad and crippled,
I feel like I am dying inside,
There is no safe place to be,
All these egos clashing,
All these talks of unfulfilled expectations,
Everyone wanting the other to be as per their definition,
The putting on of fake mask in front of you,
To hide what I want to say in fear of another riot,
Inside I fight myself to be what you expect,
Outside I act like what of me I feel other’s expect,
I’m a loser in the race of what people decide is best,
Of what people think is fun and what they think everyone should have.
I fear I’m not like metal, which bends to the smith’s will,
But I’m like glass, hard enough to sustain the weather,
But ready to break when the blow strikes.

We looked around not thinking straight,
I undermined myself in front of her,
Inside her mind she did the same,
We knew we wanted the other,
But we didn't know the other wanted the same,
Strangers alike we sat there,
Of waiting opportunities we were unaware.

The world constantly loses its meaning
It constantly redefines itself
At a point all is jumbled
Then good is bad
Bad becomes good
And so our world goes around
Changing the people with itself
Change being the only other constant leaving time
And in all the madness we living creatures learn to endure
In this madness created by us
Thus evolving into what we fear
Leading to our demise.