Underneath cold, blanketed stars
We suffer alone, together
In between the sweet tidings
Of never and forever.

However far you may lie
Forever in my mind when we're apart
And the sweet thoughts that you may dream
Compare not to the feelings in my heart

I wandered long through endless days,
A heart adrift in misty haze
The world was wide, yet cold and bare,
A silent song hung in the air

Then suddenly, like dawn’s embrace,
A light appeared, a warming grace
Your laughter danced, a melody,
That woke the quiet soul in me

Your touch, as soft as autumn’s breath
Revived the dreams I thought had left
Your eyes, twin stars that brightly shone
Turned empty roads to paths of home

No grand parade, no thunder’s call
Just whispers sweet and footsteps small
A love that bloomed in simple ways
Like sunlight spilling golden rays

Now hand in hand, through time we glide
With open hearts and love as guide
For in your gaze, I’ve come to see
The beauty love has made of me

I'm like the furthest star from your being
I've already died and faded out
You have not begun to realize it yet
My eyes grow cold and lifeless with doubt

All you see is the resonance
Of what I once was and what I had done
You will soon see my flash of brilliance
An explosion of wisdom in foreign tongues

My neutron star imploding
Blinding all non-believers
The deafening cries of a lifetime of heartache
Knowledge bestowed upon righteous receivers

I have become one with the myths
A shadow of my former self
Mere vestiges of all my thoughts and invocations
Permeating the infinite with stealth

"Tell me a secret," she whispered
There are no shadows on the sun
The moon is a vestige of our past sins
I'm dying for a chance to live as one

I can't rid my mind of misery
Heaven knows I lack control
No matter how fast and far I run,
The devil still finds my soul

Before I was born here
They lived through the fire
Traveling unseen through the living world
I found not what I desired

When night terrors come alive
Do you remember when we died?
What mysteries do you see
In the black holes of my eyes?

He waits outside the door
I witness my reflection blink
Death is the poor man's doctor
And the silence to minds that think

The rebirth of a deity
The one who was led astray
The reawakening of a warrior
Come to fight another day

I hear the gentle whispers
Dead speaking through lives past
I hear the battle drums blaring
Will this war be my last?

Crazy feelings flood my paper
As my pen begins its
Ritualistic dance.

Insane voices fill my head
Upon the possibility of
Second chance.

Silence speaks the truth
When angel choirs sing
Their songs.

It’s not what you have,
But who you have
When you no longer belong.

The sky is a graveyard of stars
Each one a scar from forgotten wars
I stare through the cracks in my broken disguise
Afraid of the dark, but more of the lies

An exhumation of my former self
Dug up truths left to rot on the shelf
Buried my heart in a casket of doubt
Now it screams from within, trying to claw its way out

Let the demons soar. Let them rise!
I’ve fed them too long to cut all ties
They circle above like vultures of flame
And whisper my sins while chanting my name

Can’t close my eyes, for it is where,
The devil hides in every stare
He waits in dreams with bloodstained hands
Building kingdoms on sinking sands

The people with the biggest smiles,
Walk the longest, loneliest miles
And I, I wear mine like a mask each day
Hiding the hurt in a world gone gray

I have not followed.
Nor will I ever feel need.
Move forth now young pawns,
Overwhelmed with greed.
Engineered disease
Of our own accord.
Betrayed by ourselves.
A fate we cannot afford.

In a state of
Liquid suspension.
Lost somewhere
Beyond apprehension.

Softly we whisper
Words of divinity.
Slowly we creep
The enigma of reality.

Cautiously we move onward
Becoming a single entity.
The beauty between us
Transformed in unity.

No voice of reason
To pretend.
As our being
Transcends
Capturing
Escaped amends.

Dive head first
Into uncertainty.
As long as I have you,
I live for eternity.

Blessed is the night
That conceals our identity
Blessed is the night
Such peace and serenity

Blessed is the night
Of sensations and no control
Blessed is the night
Of undying rock and roll

Blessed is the night
Where creatures come to play
Blessed is the night
Where we become the prey

She wields our daughter like a sword,
A weapon forged in spite and scorn
Not love nor care, but cruel accord,
To leave me lost, alone, and torn

Her words, like ice, cut through my skin,
One day soft, the next a storm
A mind that shifts, a world that spins,
A rage filled heart, now barely warm

She paints me dark in whispered lies,
A villain drawn in crooked lines
Yet when the mirror meets her eyes,
The cracks reflect what she won’t find

Our child’s caught in tides that turn,
A ship adrift on reckless waves
A love that should be bright and firm,
Now tangled in the games she plays

But I stand tall, though winds may howl,
I won’t be bent, I won’t be bowed
For love is not a fleeting vow,
And truth still speaks beyond the shroud

One day, our daughter’s eyes will see,
Through storms and shadows cast so wide
She’ll know the love I gave was free,
Not pawn nor prize, just by her side

Good and evil
Lie side by side,

And in between
Is where we hide.

In the shallows,
We dare not confide.

We turn to evil
Look death in the eyes,

And with a flash of brilliance
We see good in our lives.

You can knock as much as you like on the coffin lid at night, when the dead awaken and the spirits arise, yet your screams will remain unheard and your pleas unanswered.  Speak your heart and let it resound true in the moment, lest your desires remain unheard in eternity.

Words and images
Of hate and despair.
Concrete walls
And iron bars.
Divisions of the soul.
Loathing, ceaseless strife.
Happiness vanishing
Within the night.
Masses herded.
Shivering in lonely seasons.
Unprepared, pretentious
Mongers of greed.
A small plant
Bending towards sunlight
While trampled
Under foot.
Insane, mundane
Theoretical disadvantages.
The universe has no use
For the virus of
The Human Race.
******* dry and
Leaving empty.
Necessities unreplenished.
The moon
History of the last
Failed experiment.
Future doomed
Of history's repent.
Repetitious reinventions
Gone with the limbs of
The serpent.
Contagious, voracious
Blissful ignorance.
Blinded, blurred
Worth of self.
Dependently independent.
Unable to close the gap
Between tomorrow and
The now.
Following too closely
In the wake of
Destruction.
Abandoned,
Unable to change course.
Eternal frailty.
Impregnated with
Foreign thoughts
And foreign words.
Somewhere lost in
The granules of time.
Wrapped up in the eternity
Of my own mind.

You were everything I needed
And nothing at once
A continuous reminder
Of an absent life for your sons

Every time I hug my daughter
Is when I needed one from you
Every white lie to keep her sparkle
Is to counteract my childhood of truths

The stars in the sky,
Tombstones of my childhood dreams
Pulling from emptiness,
Faint light that still gleams

Floating amidst a sea of confusion
With no one at the helm
An unguided vessel,
Somehow navigated out of hell

I’d rather live one day as a lion
Than a hundred as a sheep
Surviving my keelhauling through life
Thriving off a pain set so deep

He was the echo of a thunderstorm
The shadow that stretched but took no form
A name whispered in the quiet night
A fleeting flicker, a stolen light

He was everything and nothing at all
A towering ghost, a silent call.
The seat left empty, the door ajar
A distant memory shaped by scars

But what he withheld, I freely give
A love that breathes, a life to live
The hugs he forgot, I hold too tight
The words he silenced, I speak each night

He taught me absence, and in return,
I’ve built a fire where his did not burn
The stories untold, I now create
The gaps he left, I’ll never replicate

For every tear that fell unseen
I give her laughter, calm and keen.
The void he carved, I’ve turned to space
Where love can flourish and find its place

So here’s to my daughter, my endless proof
That love can thrive under any roof
For everything and nothing he’ll be
I give her all he never gave to me

I sit, pondering
In the midst of society.
Finding comedy in what
People deem normal and reality

Driven by greed
And unnecessary vices
Forgotten this kingdom
Requires sacrifices

Gone are the morals
Insubstantial dreams
They take for granted
The simplicity life means

Watched humanities EVILution
I watch souls deteriorate
And feel saddened as they think
Money makes them great

No longer is man measured
By loyalty and true worth
No longer do we care
What happens upon exiting earth

A man's word means nothing
His promises, empty
Gone is the time
When lovers loved gently

A crime of passion
And the offspring shall suffer
Feasting on the failure's
Of another man's brother

Ordered by cardboard generals
Bombarded by corrupt media
Spoon fed lies and injustice
Choking on our own neurasthenia

Grab my hand.  Grip it tightly and hold it firmly to your chest.  Treasure the few fleeting moments we have left to share together, for it will not be long until I abscond into the surreal and leave you here with only remnants of my whispers.  Exploding, lighting the night skies across all that is seen and unseen.  Immortality awaits.  I hear my name being called upon a distant shore.  They cry for me.  They bid me to relieve myself of the horrors of the known universe.  Happiness awaits the ones who remained true to the word.  Loyalty and sacrifice have given the key to the unknown.  Exploration of limitless desire.

She takes my breath away.
Don’t know if I can
Find the words to say:
My universe syncs up
Perfectly in her presence.
Interwoven, entwined.
Shared conception.
The atavistic mystics have
Prognosticated our destiny
Long before our
Past lives together.
Our kismet is written
On the stones of
Ancient cave walls.
Splashed across the flowing
Fields of desire.
In the depths of the ocean
Where only our love can survive.
Do not portend without knowledge
Of histories past.
A clear understanding
Beckoning my soul to revive.
As my universe begins to slow
And time comes to a whispering stop.
I notice your hand grasping mine,
Fingers interlocked.

Thank you for the silence and storms
For teaching me love through all its warped forms
For every cold shoulder, for each raised voice
You gave me no comfort, but you gave me a choice

I learned how it feels to be small and unseen
To tiptoe through tempers, to swallow a scream
But in all the chaos, one truth grew bright
What not to become and what must be made right

You showed me the damage that careless words do
The weight of a promise that never comes true
But from broken pieces, I’ve built something whole
A vow to protect a much softer soul

My daughter won’t flinch when footsteps draw near
Her heart won’t be sculpted by shame or by fear
She’ll know that love listens, that presence is loud
That strength isn’t anger, and kindness is proud

So thank you for pain, for the scars, and the ache
They taught me the future that I refuse to remake
And though you won’t see it, or maybe you will
I broke the cycle with unshaking will

You taught me, by failing, what fathers must be
In her loving eyes, I’m healing the child in me

Pain is based on pleasure
And pleasure, then on pain
Full circle is the cycle
The refuses to be slain

The crippling pain of heartache
Unparalleled highs of love
Full circle is the cycle
The pain and joy of love

Gazing into her eyes
This universe of another kind
Gazing beyond formalities
Where society is blind

In simplicity is where
Sanctity must hide
Infusion of the soul
With what we've left behind

Gazing into her eyes
This complex world unwinds
Gazing back into a time
Where the infinite held our minds

I danced upon memories
When there was reason behind life
And all our shallow insecurities
Were not solved underneath the knife

I gazed upon the intrigue
Of sudden, sharp surprise
The sting of knowledge that proves
Behind each horrid truth
Is an even more horrific lie

Ripped from the vine.
Taken away.
Never forgotten.
Pains me each day.

Lost in muddied waters
Of nonexistence.
Ravaged and ruined
As if grave pestilence.

Float on now sons and daughters
Of hatred and impurity.
The life that you sought
Taken, prematurely.

All that I need
I thought I had found.
Love used to surround us.
Now it just holds us down.

Drowning in desire.
Dreams of changing the past.
Decisions made too quickly
And a life that doesn’t last.

Overwhelmed with emotion.
Never felt this way before.
Unable to describe
Your gravitational allure.

Caught up in the sensation
And unparalleled elation
That your charisma represents.
Caught up in the fixation
Of perfection in creation
Exuding from your inimitable presence.

She’s got everything I need.
Infatuated by her smile.
She’s got everything I desire.
Captivating curves have me beguiled.

Born from raw emotion.
Poured from lover’s potion.
Construed in silk lover’s
Satin dreams.
Light of knowledge, wisdom
From her smile gleams.

You're dangerously honest
Silently filled with screams
Your body lies in the waking world,
Yet your mind still wanders in dream

Walking alongside mannequin masses
How much of this is real?
Staring back at what I assume to be myself
Emptiness pervading all that I feel

I drown in the sin of impassioned sweat
These stained sheets that mark my grave
These years are poison; these tears are deadly
The lies of living have made me a slave

Lost, wandering in a vicious world
Of constant contradictions and deadly afflictions
Dying by the hand of my own vices
And misguided, misinterpreted convictions

My favorite song is being sung by a dead man
Stolen are his hopes and dreams
A resurgence of his soul enlivens me
Though his revelations remain unseen

For I know why the caged animal cries
Through iron bars, he is fed lies

The truth is but a lie undiscovered
Who controls the thoughts in your head?
Discreet indiscretion and silent objection
Our minds spoon fed the brilliant flesh of the dead

I long only to feel the warmth of your love
Before I grow tired and cold
I long to be blessed with your passion
Realize such worldly wonders without being told

A shallow grave sunken in marshy swamp
No one to watch over or preside
This empty box houses my world for eternity
In the darkness of the infinite is where I will hide

I burn for her.
Perched in soft, diamond sky.
Millions of miles away
She glimmers
And quickly turns blind eye.

I cry for her
And slowly drown in no worth.
I call out to her
And begin to shake the earth.

I point in her direction
Streaming light across night sky.
I call out searching, tirelessly.
I wish my need for her would die.

I catch her stealing a glance
And warm the ground beneath
With love.
I see her running back to me
And earth floats calmly,
Tender sky
Above.

Wretched evil is hatched
In the idle minds of man.

Idle thoughts.
Empty contemplation.
Stupidity is contagious.
Just look at our “great” nation.

Shortcomings masked.
Spoon fed, inebriated, ******
Swine.
Hidden by false securities and
Insincere smiles.
Evils kept,
Clandestine.

Criminals running wild.
Wicked, treacherous sorcery.
Evil leading blindly.
Madmen running our country.

Gone are the days
When minds traveled
Freely.

Gone are the nights
When lovers loved
Sincerely.

Many a song has been sung.
False praise of the purest beauty
For which man has seen no rival.
Divinity is her name, unspoken.
Falls upon men who listen with their heart.
A transcendental work of divine revival.
Quoth fair beauty,
Elegance emanating from her grace,
"I bestow a love upon thee
Time nor space can erase."
A true embodiment of supernatural splendor.
An allure of enticing, enigmatic love.
The sheer presence of her magnificence,
Accompanied by the aura of mystery,
As she makes her descent from above.
Her lips of silk surpass timelessness.
Satin dreams:  The surreptitious vision of the infinite.
Seems like eternity, I have awaited your touch.
I have become whole; fulfilled is my soul
As I marvel in our future together.

If these streets could speak
Fantastic stories they would tell
From drunken nights, forgotten
And childhood heroes that fell

If the moon up high could write
A novelist he'd be
Of lover's lane and voices, insane
And pure adultery

If the trees outside could listen
Brokenhearted, they would dwell
This world once pure, this paradise
And how it has been transformed into hell

Inhale the pain
Exhale the bliss
Inhale before
Your soft, luscious
Kiss

Nothing is real
Wandering blind
Eyes closed to the world
Left far
Behind

Images of war
Splashed across the silver screen
Images of lust
And everything
Obscene

Flowing hair
In a state of liquid suspension
Wading through the night
Attain the impossible and
Change your perception

Regurgitation of the spoon fed, unintelligible dribble supplied by the media is not intelligence.

The jewel eyed, breathtaking beauty
Seemingly stolen from my dreams
Has entered upon my waking hour
Slipped through unconscious seams

Her captivating presence
Commanding the gaze of mine eye
Slips softly around my periphery
Silk wonderment in diamond sky

Her velvet, supple hand
Trickles softly down my face
She steals away my whispers
And leaves behind an aura of grace

Her satin lips confound me
Mystified by luminescent smile
Fingers dance along the edge of her being
Entrancing curves have me beguiled

Struck with the realization of existentialism.
Found the secret to the universe.
Found the cosmic codex then erased it.

Struck with the sudden fury of a divine messenger.
Understood the duality of good and evil.
Recorded the universe of knowledge then misplaced it.

Struck with a wave of indecision.
Solved theoretical physicists struggle with time travel.
Caught the speed of light and then outpaced it.

Struck with the spear of a fallen angel.
Found the devil in my dreams.
Became his nightmare and replaced it.

Ancient Shaman,
Breathe life into me.
Question existence.
Knowledge through spirituality.

Medicine man,
Of the unjust world, heal me.
Unveil the power of this great land.
Help me transcend reality.

Oh, great healer,
Give me virility.
Impart on me wisdom.
Envisioning man's journey.

Just as wide, clouded horizon
Began to fade to gray.
Kissed softly by your sweet whispers.
Presenting me with reason to stay.
Glowing fires in the hillside,
A reincarnation of forgotten dreams.
Brilliance in beauty;
Magnanimous affection soulfully gleams.
Once, I departed on a wondrous journey,
When, upon arid land I did arrive.
Finding unrivaled comfort in your heart.
Discovering everlasting solace in your eyes.
Exuding an inimitable beauty,
Radiating from supple face and glowing smile.
Surely angelic attainment of said virtues,
Bestowed upon such a divinely gorgeous child.
Offering my unfaltering love and loyalty,
Happily adorned in sweet reverie.

Beneath wide, clouded horizons.
Radiant, expressive hues.
Fires aglow in the hillsides.
Build my castle with you

Amongst ancient, antediluvian villages.
Knowledge, wisdom of times past.
Across waving, silver plains.
Which spoken word will not outlast.

Oracles murmur among the ruins.
Caused of covetous desires.
Shaman’s chant
Possess the virgins’ dance.
A savage ritual across the fires.

Our love unites us
Across seas frozen in time.
Our love that frees us
From this fortress of solitude.
Knowing that you are mine.

Vibrations from the wings
Of electric delight
Scream thunderously across
The night sky.
Our passion providing the light.

As we journey,
Take my hand.
Do not wander,
Do not falter.
United we will stand.

What can subsequent generations inherit
Besides our curse?  
Our ravaged, ruined, barren land.  
We bestow upon our heirs
Unfinished wars
Over infertile land.
The grave pestilence of love
And lover’s disease.
We continue to deface
Monuments to our creator.
We have ravaged the innocence
Of our children.
The human race accursed
To preside over sterile soil
And walk amongst masochists
Calling for mass genocide,
For we are truly the beasts
Of this (impure) world.
Insatiable lust
Of blood and breast.
Traded a moment of pleasure
For the beating in my chest.
Instant gratification
Has left us naked and depraved.
Underworked and overcomplicated.
Morals absconded
With the men we enslave.
In the brevity of our existence
For ages, the world, we have slain.
In time, we shall eradicate
Ourselves
And only the pure will remain.

Of endless nights
Leading into sleepless days
Rediscovering love
And it's passionate craze

Of self war and self sacrifice
At the hands of another
Ripping dignity apart
At the helm of our lover

To forget parts of our being
Left on lonesome, cold shelves
We all need to learn
To rediscover ourselves

Hovering somewhere between
White light and darkness
Wakefulness and dream
Reality and surrealism
I exist everywhere in between
The subtle nuances of life.

Too many questions
Mindless suggestions
Unanswerable inquiries
No one to invent them
Chaos resides in
The hearts of many.
Madness subsides in the
Minds of the controlled.

Slaves to history
Repeating the past
Ignoring lessons foretold
Slaves to a new generation
Degrading too fast.

We outlive our sons
And plague our daughters
Attempting to safeguard her
From newer selves disorder.

Only to fail and be broken
When she hides secrets
In shelves.

Afraid to express emotion
To her book she will go
History repeats itself
Impending doom
We all know.

You single out an innocent child
Claiming he's a bad seed
Never given a chance to prove himself
Guidance and support is all he needs

Drugs have become the common answer
A classroom full of doped up kids
No uniqueness or originality can surmount
Shielding parents with their own eyelids

Flushing out the child's deemed impurities
Punished for something he hasn't done
Portrayed him as a problem child
Labeled him as the one

You're supposed to be supportive
Giving children hope to succeed
Instead, you ruined him at a young, tender age
Smashing his aspirations and dreams

Turning children into robots
Addicted to medication, fiends
No unique thoughts or beautiful  minds
You rob children of their being

Their innocence stolen
True thoughts hidden and unseen
Convincing them that free will is evil
With consequences obscene

Easily disposed of
In this game of Russian Roulette
A false move or faltering hand
A thought you wrongly interpret

The hammer clicks once
You've escaped death's grasp
Your life moves on
As present is now past

The shot echoes
Resounding through the halls
Life is out of reach
Before the body falls

No chance to change
The past or the now
You move through the chaos
And suddenly hit ground

Sitting and wondering
How life might have turned out
With a few different choices
Success is no doubt

You come back slowly, languidly
To the lingering voices
You've seen your eternity
Painful afterlife of your choices

The endless darkness
Lit only by furies of pain
The Bible's wrath
Has come down again

Open your book
Begin a fresh page
Your soul has been chosen
New flesh in new age

No more fire
Of earth, wind, and water
What you desire
Is societal disorder

Where the first petals of rose begin to color.
On the other side of morning,
At the end of the night.

I will be there, waiting
In solemn pose
For the beauty of your sight.

Where the stars no longer shimmer
At the end of worlds we know.

I will be there, waiting
In solemn pose
For the love I’ll never know.

You couldn't hide it any longer
Always ahead of the game
Before you spoke a word
I already knew the name

Of the man who robbed you
Of your innocence
Stole away your childhood
Left you cold and alone
Forced you to grow up in an instant

He planted subtle lies in your head
Forced you to grow up too quick
He told you he'd love you forever
And you foolishly fell for the trick

Is five minutes of pleasure
Worth a lifetime of pain?
You say it's not his fault
Who else is there to blame?

What are you ashamed of?
Afraid to let me know?
I would have taken care of you
He's gone and left you alone

I've always been there for you
Through times thick and thin
Always put you ahead of myself
Why won't you let me in?

I recall meeting you,
In a dark dream.

I remember your face,
Now cloaked and unseen.

I recall your transformation
From angel to demoness.

I remember evil incantations
While slipping off your dress.

She is the essence of mystery.
The center of all my desires.
She is the essence of beauty,
To which each night I retire.

She is the essence of comfort,
In which I confide.
She is the essence of love,
Where my soul is alive.

This world of ours.
This place of grave deceptions.

This place of smoke and mirrors.
Of false hopes and misconceptions.

The empty promises laid before us.
I watch them turn to waste.

The elaborate feast that's laid before us.
Robbed before we get a taste.

Pacing slowly
In the gallery of dreams.
On display to the masses,
The elegant and obscene.

Indescribably lost
In a forest of words.
Too quick to be caught,
Now muttering, absurd.

Invitation to
The cosmic dance.
Toss your handful of dreams
And ****** one by chance.

Hold it now, tightly to your chest.
Inhale deep the allure.
Earth now swallowing up
All the unjust and impure.

Misplaced somewhere in time.
Where fear survives.
Where when the sun goes down,
The soul comes alive.

Ancient, tribal chanting
Off in the distance of dark night.
Cloaked by the wind
With demonic grin
Across an ocean of fright.

Tribal dances on the
Shores of desire.
Lost in this world,
Awaiting the pathway,
Lit by moon and fire.

Strings have all snapped.
Chains busted at the link.
Stuck in the gallery of dreams
Amongst memories of which
You cannot unthink.

A life of innocence and shattered dreams.
Of a broken heart and sorrowful screams.
Of knowing his father's head is not right.
Of unadulterated hatred surviving the night.

A room full of tension, masked with a cloud of smoke.
Of a child, bruised and beaten for laughing and making a joke.
Of sullen faces , never free from crying eyes.
Of a hopeful mother, pleading and praying to the skies.

A city full of grudges and insurmountable mistakes.
Of naive youths who choose the wrong fate.
Of innumerable addicts, indulging to escape.
Of a child's fragile mind, left there battered and *****.

A teen, full of potential
Striving for the best.
Who worked so long
And fought so hard
With no opportunity for rest.

Who faked being happy
And smiled through the pain.
Who remained cool and collected
While on the brink of going insane.

A man who never took initiative
And lives with unfulfilled dreams.
Who finally comes to realize
The world is never what it seems.

Who once had such aspirations
And sought to stand straight and tall.
Who looks back on his mundane life
And his mind begins to fall.

A man full of hatred
And violent despair.
Who never experienced love.
It simply wasn't there.

Who watched as years went by,
Contemplating life he was appalled.
Who never amounted to anything.
He won't be remembered at all.

The man with the ****
Crouched huddled, shaking.
His friend beaten, in pain.
The man remained faking.

The man with the ****
Stood shivering in fear.
His friend taken away.
His conscience unclear.

The man with the ****
Sat bewildered and tense.
Watched his friend, hauled away.
Spoke not in his defense.

The man with the ****
Whom his friend saved innumerable times
Let his friend take the blame
And left him far behind.

The man with the ****
Turned his back in shame.
Although he knew of the innocence,
Silent he remained.

The man with the ****
Who could have saved his dear friend
Remained silent and unspoken.
Let him down in the end.

The man with the ****
Where there should be two *****
Sat shaking on the curbside
And let his friend take the fall.