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Bethlehem Mar 2016
I hear the devil knocking on my door,trying to break me down and take my soul.

I hear the devil knocking on my door,
oh Lord I feel so alone.

He's playing with my mind, went to sleep woke up blind.

He's ripped me inside out, been Hang and been dried.

The fire burns my soul it cries,my Hart it burns my world it dies.

He's made me believe all his lies.

Tears are streaming down my face, but no one can save me from his embrace.

The devil is knocking me down, its too late he's already won.
787 · Sep 2016
Mother
Bethlehem Sep 2016
Mother watching me with piercing  cold eyes, your dreams for me were nothing but lies.

Mother suffocating me with your so called love and expectations, my lungs are dying like cancer patients.

Mother who is ever so wise, I've lived my life for you in disguise.
Turning into what I hated, till my lies became too complicated.

Mother am flowed I will be the first to admit, but you are the real hypocrite.
What do you see when you look at me? am not the once fraile girl you knew me to be.

Mother who wastes my youth without care, there only so much a person can bare.
I hear you laughter in my head, it is a sound that I've come to dread.

Mother you gave me the precious gift of life, but all your words cut like a knife.
Why do you hate me? do I remind you of everything you wanted to be.

Mother who feeds on my anger and
Frustration, Like a hunger stricken nation.
Nothing I will ever do will be good enough for you, I feel it in my heart It must be true.

Mother I know you only do what you think is best, that's why you made my life a test  

Mother it seems our worlds are destined to crash, leaving behind nothing but ash.
719 · Jul 2016
Into the unknown
Bethlehem Jul 2016
I see trouble on the way.  
I see evil coming out to play.

I see doubt in your eyes, I've been counting all your lies.
I feel chaos as the wind blows, how it began nobody knows.

Your so far yet so close, this is not the life you would have chose.

Snow falls on blood covered stones, I felt it deep down in my bones.
I need to move, I need to go above the clouds I hear the crows.

In the distance, the bodies froze, as the smell of death hits my nose.

Look at the mess you made, think of the price you paid.

Are you strong or are you afraid, don’t you know you're going to fade you can't hide in the shade, do you feel betrayed?

Somethings been screaming in my head, someone's been sleeping in my bed.
Trapped by my mind, I've been walking around blind.

How many chances will I get, how many memories will I forget.  

Into the unknown I jump, don't look back it's just a bump.

Am I ready for what's to come, I let it all go and bang the drum.
548 · Aug 2016
Blink of an eye
Bethlehem Aug 2016
Everything can change in the blink of an eye, pull up a chair now don't be shy.

The world is burning to the ground, you can see it yet you can't hear a sound.
A world with streets painted red, nothing's been done it's all be said.
A cloud of poison follows me everywhere I go, it's not who you are it's who you know.
Acid rain burns my skin, a million drops for a thousand sin.

Nothing is as it seems were all trapped by our dreams, we lost our minds shut the blinds and ignore the signs.
Everyone does no one asks why, there's nothing left you cannot buy everything's for sale wrapped up in a lie.
Poor souls trying to numb the pain close your eyes and shut off your brain, standing in the rain calling to god again and again but it's the devil that knows your name.

Wake up and throw fuel on the fire, make the flames dance higher

talk me off the ledge take a lesson from my page, you can run but you can't hide all you have left is your pride, you don't have a choice your hands are tied you have to win you have to fight.
509 · Jun 2016
Last Act of a desperate man
Bethlehem Jun 2016
The sky turns jet black the wind knocks me down on my back,everything looks the same in the dark, your love really left it's mark.

Last act of a desperate man,hold my breath and count to ten.
Last thing I need to do,is find a way to get back to you.
Time has torn you away from me, maybe you and I weren't ment to be.
A drop in the sand reach out to hold your hand,as you turn away can't we meet half way.
I hear the wind whisper your name, guess I'll take all the blame.
I spent all this time waiting for you,but I was tossed aside for something new.
As I Look up at the moon my mind plays a haunting tune,that tells me you'll be mine,I smile and chills run down my spine.
Am looking for the path that leads me back to you, I wish for the stars to give me a clue.
Eyes wide open as the sky turns blue,
looking for the way to get back to you.
484 · Jun 2016
Tired Soldier
Bethlehem Jun 2016
I've been playing by the rules for so long;am so tired but am trying to stay strong.

How do you fight something that can't be fought,A system that's so flowed?

It picks who lives and who dies,It fills your mind with nothing but lies.

A system built to keep you down it ,slowly spreads to break you down.

A system that will try to work you to death,and when your close it will take your last breath.

A system filled with violence and greed,it will never die cause it spreads it's seed.

It watches every move you make, your world will radile and shake.

It tells you to Fill your head,you will keep quiet or your dead.

It weeds out the the strong from the weak,ones that follow the others lead.

How do you fight something that can't be fought?
You better run or you'll get caught.
380 · Dec 2016
Foolish Dreamer
Bethlehem Dec 2016
When the leaves turn and the moon breaks apart,I look at your face and don't know where to start.

A Foolish dreamer who lived in a tower held together by her dreams, but nothing is ever as it seems as time stumbled by, her dreams fell from the sky.

Reality caught her by surprise and exposed it's ugly lies, and a once hopeful soul was forced to live in disguise.

Her world grew unforgiving and cold, as she questioned all she was ever told.
A fragile heart filled with nothing but despair, shattered at the slightest scare.

As months turned into weeks and weeks into days so began the second phase, that left her body broken and her mind a drunken haze.

She lived for the wicked games,that set her world to flames creating pleasure from others misery,for each broken heart she claimed victory.

It's a work of art the way she plays her part, just another clone paralyzed Floating from one moment to another, her heart ice cold she dose as she's told.
  
At the end of the day wishing to dream the night away,but the sandman won't come out to play.

watching as time is washed away and the night surrenders to the day, she knew behind her endless pain was the truth her heart couldn't accept, she was just a lonely being trying to connect.
329 · Oct 2016
A New Day
Bethlehem Oct 2016
A new day is Rising.
A new way is becoming clear,so lift up you head now and don't shed another tear.

I shall not be consumed by these fears that haunt my dreams,breaking down my walls to spread their poisonous seeds,then fleeing in the night like cowardice thieves.

I shall not be consumed by the saddness that plagues my heart,day after day threatening to tear it apart.

I shall not be consumed by this anger that burns deep down to my soul,like an engine that runs on coal.

I shall not be consumed by these familiar voices of doubt that play endlessly on repeat, I will bury them deep down in coffins made of concrete.  

I shall not be consumed by your toxic words that brings darkness at any time of day, I will cast them out like the sun casts the night away.

I shall not be consumed by these idols I've made from clay, that fed on my dreams and left me to decay.

Though i was set up to fail, like a snake eating his own tail.
Though I don't know what the future holds, I shall fight till my last breath,the only thing that will stop me is the bitter teast of death.
323 · Apr 2016
Too late
Bethlehem Apr 2016
I'm my worst enemy

Day by day life has brought me down on my knees

Bumpy roads and rooms full of tears can't bring myself to look in these mirrors

It's too late for me
it's too late for me
I got nobody Lord won't you help me

Living in fear day by day so many things left to say
Each day I wake in a cloud of Haze wondering around my life a maze

It's too late for me
too late for me
I got nobody the Lord turned his back on me

Where did I go so wrong keep crying to the same old song
They tell me wishing is for the weak but love and happiness is all I seek

Lies of Hope swim in my head somebody make up my dying bed
309 · Jun 2016
Running from my shadow
Bethlehem Jun 2016
There's a constant battle in my heart,good versus bad the devil versus god.

Don't stop,don't think close your eyes and count to ten now and then,why and when.
All these answers I need to know
All the places I need to go.

Suddenly its all clear can't stay here am suffocating, I need to run i need to
disappear.
I fell Something holding me back,a shadow long and black.

It holds me like the roots holds a tree,it haunts me until my past is all I see.
It pulls me back, my misery starts to stack.
Am broken and alone,am barely holding on am on my own.
I've lost my courage and pride, I started fighting for the other side.

He wispers in my ears breaks me down into tears,In the blink of an eye years have gone by.

Each year I lost a little part of me, I close my eyes and count to three,
One, two, three run till you can't see.
Run as fast as you can don't stop for any man, Hurry grab the key keep running your almost free.
263 · May 2016
What happened
Bethlehem May 2016
It was a cloudy summer day,sitting alone all day.
Memories  come flooding back, the walls I built slowly start to crack.

All my pain, fear and doubt start to drip out.

What happened? I hear a whisper.
What happened to your dreams?
drowning silently in your screams.

What happened to your spirit to your curiosity, you always wanted to leave this city.

What happend to all the things you were going to be.
what happened to all the places you were going to see.

You Promised me you were going to change, pick yourself up and break out of this cage.

You Promised to love again,cause the pain of loss would keep you sane.

But all I see is a Tired soul, desperately trying to climb out of this hole.

Who's trying to keep from breaking down, she wears nothing but a frown.

Someone whose running out of hope,trying but failing to cope.

What am I going to do I beg how do I make it out, how do I become what I thought.

its too late the voice whispers back,your heart is heavy and cold.
Life has passed you by,You look so old.

There is no light at the end of this tunnel your just alone,there's no one to save you you're on your own.
248 · Jun 2016
Gone
Bethlehem Jun 2016
Am gone in every way,my minds lost and gone away.
I try to find a reason to fight,life isn't always black and white.

Feel as if am playing a lossing game,nothing changes everything's the same.

What's the point in all this pain when there's nothing left to gain.

What's s the point in all the rules when the world is so cruel.  

Something's got me confused
This lifes left me hurt and bruised.

What is it am trying to achieve
In what am I supposed to believe.

Am angry and frustrated at all the time I wasted.

How am I supposed to fight when I can't even find the light.

What's the point of praying
When I can't hear what your saying.

Am gone in every way, I've got nothing left to say.
236 · May 2016
How long
Bethlehem May 2016
How long
How far
How many places will you run

Your lost
Your afraid
You got to lay in the bed you made

woke up today  same old sadness weighing heavy on my heart
thought that be the hardest part

Made myself a promise to be better
Didn't want to forget so wrote it down In a letter

Told myself you'll do great you know it's never too late

How long
How far
How many days since you've seen the sun

Can't run no more so am  laying here down on the floor
The days there going by I keep telling the same old lie

I pray my sorrow to carry me away turn to look the sky turns gray

Am lost
Am afraid
Now I've got to lay in the bed I made
225 · Aug 2017
Unconscious Mind
Bethlehem Aug 2017
Do I dream too vividly?
Hope too foolishly?
Fall too easily?
choose to ignore, what's right in front of me?

Am I asleep while awake?
Love while I hate?
Give just to take?
Destroy what I create?

Do I run to death to feel alive?
Do I need a purpose for this life?
Do I fear my future or my past?
Does happiness really last?

Am I lost or has my mind drafted, has the world gone mad, or am I just twisted?
218 · May 2016
Beautiful sin
Bethlehem May 2016
Take this from my heart,take it all away am moving on am leaving today.

Gray sky one little lie.
Can we just call it a tie.
Confused scared out of my head,the seasons change standing on the edg.

I just don't know what to do,you say you love me well I love you too.

Your love is poison but I can't let go,even knowing all that I know.

one look from you and I'm yours, what's got a hold of me is there a cure.

won't you help me get out of his skin?
won't you help me right this sin?

Every day every night, thoughts of you fill my mind.

tick tock the time goes, am waiting standing on my toes .

Given you everything i got, and nothing is what you brought.

I think that we agree, its time for you to set me free.

— The End —