Walking down this path of hate,
A darkness that will not sedate,
This nightmare no one could create,
So far from that once peaceful state.

Now sinking in this sea of shame,
A cloud of hurt that has no name,
A coldness where there once was flame,
In feelings I can’t seem to tame.

Descending in my own despair,
This broken soul beyond repair,
My heart dissolves each thought and care,
To leave me with no love to spare.

So here I lay beyond remorse,
Where destiny has run its course,
My time to go back to the source,
Beyond all realms of human force.

Incomplete right from the start,
An empty space within each heart,
Two souls without some vital part,
Forever doomed to live apart.

Two shadows drifting through the years,
Both changing shapes and shifting gears,
Without true love to ease their fears,
Alone and lost inside their tears.

Until one day the story changed,
The pages turned and rearranged,
No longer were their hearts estranged,
Joined through these vows they have exchanged.

Complete at last and truly whole,
Two lives combined within each soul,
Their paths now shared in one patrol,
True love at last in their control.

I feel the shadows close to me,
Their cold embrace so dear to me,
This love they hold for only me,
A feeling I thought lost to me.

I hear the shadows calling me,
Their secrets only shown to me,
This portal crafted just for me,
A mirror to a different me.

I let the shadows follow me,
The darkness now consuming me,
As pain and hurt abandon me,
A shadow stands where once was me.

Love is not a shade of skin,
Nor can it ever be a sin,
It has no form nor written guide,
But comes instead from deep inside.

Love is not just man and wife,
Nor can it spoil or end a life,
It has no hate nor prejudice,
The simplest soul will know of this.

Love is not defined by ***,
Nor are its needs quite so complex,
It is a force beyond compare,
A gift for all who can but dare.

Love is not all that we see,
Nor is it just a fantasy,
It is the heart in all our kind,
Just waiting there for us to find.

My heart is but a grain of sand,
a broken shard of something grand,
dispersed across a frozen land,
for reasons none can understand.

My soul is but an empty shell,
forged within the fires of hell,
born of dreams I cannot tell,
enslaved by fears I cannot quell.

My life is but a cruel disguise,
a role no mortal would reprise,
a play the very gods despise,
this torment hidden in my eyes.

Acolyte of ancient kings,
Student of the primal scribe,
Sacred bird that ever sings,
Words no man can now describe.

Offspring of this fledgling realm,
Sailor of the modern way,
Faceless masters at the helm,
Shaping out this brand new day.

Seeker of the inner truth,
Writer of the dark within,
Chronicles back to my youth,
Memoirs for my future kin.

Stay calm and safe and in my sight,
You cannot leave my side tonight,
For without you I have no hope,
And here alone I cannot cope.

Stay soft and warm and in my heart,
We cannot fall or drift apart,
For without you there is no me,
And nothing left for us to be.

Stay young and strong and ever bright,
I cannot live without your light,
For without you there is no home,
And ever more my heart will roam.