We started, like all do,
As fresh minds ready to fill
With those lessons that are true
And gain in our own skills

Having fun, our great goal
Superseding all the rest
Remaining as a true whole
We found friends that are the best

Laziness, our weakness
But we keep with all them
Through the times of stress
We shine like no other gem

Now we must part
So comes great sorrow
You all remain in my heart
Through today & tomorrow

I never thought it would be like this,
Where I fall over myself at your name alone
Trying to win you over, but I only miss,
For your heart was stolen before my own.

Yet here I am, waiting for you
To come around to me, in vain.
For you, I am not worthy, it's true,
But my soul keeps me here, insane.

My mind overflows.
You **** me, you do.
Your soul, it shows.
To you, I'll always be true.

You see me crumpled
Covered in black & blue
My body stretched & pulled
By tortures no one knew

Bashed against the cold
Bones snapping, blood flying
Death slowly gaining hold
Tears fall, like crying

Try to help, you do
Words of relief & comfort
My liar's reaction, your clue
See what causes my hurt

You see I am lost
To my own deep depression
Hurting at all cost
At my head aims my gun

Hatred grows inside
Ripping apart my soul
Digging down too deep
To keep in control

Spawning in my midst
There is none other to blame
Than that person in the mirror
The name reminiscent of flame

With troubled eyes I see
The pain I cause within
Never ending is this flow
Of personal hate and sin

Comfort is sent from others
Though it makes a mere dent
Causing little interruption for this ship
On a ceaseless path to torment

Steep walls all around
Slip and fall right to the ground
**** that hurt,  I'm bleeding again
One day I knew I'd regret losing you as a friend
But it was all your fault, **** an apology
Some bridges burn too fast for accountability
To be decided, but we both survived
Far from unscathed, we finally arrived
At this moment of silence for the lost love
Between our souls now drifting far above

I can't express the pain
The loss and hate within
And now everyone gives me ten cents
Like a poor man begging to pay rents
That are left from the apartment he couldn't afford to keep
So he's stuck on cold dirt as a bed for sleep
Everyone laughing at him in disbelief
At his ragged clothes, hair, and broken teeth

******* for judging where his life has gone
Everyone knows we are just societal pawns
Left thinking about our life so beloved
Frozen on the pavement unclean, unloved
Don't be so hasty to assume on your own
That your life can't share a similar tone
Cause that man could be me or you
Left by our friends and lovers too

That little orange truck that barely went across the floor,
It’s wobbly, plastic wheels rode poor.
It barely meant a thing, even in my core.
Until you took it from me.

I would have lost it on my own,
But I didn’t have a chance, it was blown.
Now I care for it down to the bone.
When you took it, you took my respect.

Alone, I now sit, without a toy at all.
Staring into the void and at the wall.
Now all I can do, out to you, I call,
“Bring it back! (Bring her back!)”

Twist the red into a kiss
From the one you truly miss
Turn the red into the song
Your mother sings when you are wrong
Let the red become the talk of the town
Because no one sees you drown
Slide the black into the words
Realizing your choice is absurd
The purple sky holds the answer for you
Swirl it right, and your life will not skew
But by the time you see the truth
You'll have fallen far from this sturdy roof

Little ones they run, forever young,
Avoiding the pain while strung
Upon their good times with glib tongues.

Confide, Relied, And Died.
Slip, Slide, Rip, Glide.

Never could they see my bleeding soul
That dripped the color charcoal,
Yet for me, there was no extol.

The light shone through those eyes
And what it does to me defies
All life has shown me it implies.

Confide, Relied, And Died.
Slip, Slide, Rip, Glide.

I fight the demon with these words
To ensure the avoidance of hazards
Of the knife, in hope of being lovebirds.

Sighed, Relied, And Guided.
Pried, Tried, Beside Her, I Flied.

Echoes leaving traces
Of that life we all knew
That filled us, overflowing,
With this thin, dark liquid,
Dripping from familiar places.

--OWN, --OWN, --OWN

Wishes of sleep elude
As we all begin to fear,
What has come for us
Is not real, but is just
Our own mind in a form so crude.

--ARK, --ARK, --ARK

Solace, from our friends' senses,
cannot end this grimacing demon
or it's quest to eat us whole.
Waiting in nothing but silence.
Holding our breath as muscles tense.

--ETH, --ETH, --*ETH

Drowning in the sorrows of my fellow men
Staring at their souls' dark and bitter end
I come to the conclusion
And have left no illusion
Death makes friends when we least expect
While the devil befriends all who stand *****
So rigid and so proud it makes them fall
For centuries we gossip and lie and stall
Until we break into little tiny pieces
Shattered and broken, all breathing ceases

The warm pressing of two hearts
Brings tears of pain within
For the joy pulsing deep inside
Breeds itself a pool of sin

Yet this sin is not real
The cuts it makes are deep
Tracing hateful words all over
For the promises I couldn't keep

Foolish were such promises of faith
Truth reveals no strength in me
To fight for our long lost cause
Is sealing my fate to drown at sea

I struggle to be,
This happiness prescribed.
For my nature, you see,
Is depression inscribed.

Tied to my subconscious
Is this *******, hate.
My senselessness
Is deciding my fate.

The past, how it haunts,
Forever decaying my soul.
Ridiculing with taunts,
Preventing me from being whole.

Yet for all my words,
I never saw what to do.
I can always move forward
When I focus on you.

Doth the Sun not shine upon our life through its many cycles around our home, this ground, we now stand knowingly upon? For ye, there must be many nights withstanding your weakened days. Yet, I see no darkening of the mind to spite these wicked themes of the universe casting clouds across thine only sky. Perhaps a better man, call the rainbow among your kin. I see not a beauty born from damp darkness surrounding. Nay. Thy beauty sprung not from storms ripping through thy soul. Beauty flows from far-reaching caverns over filled with life and truer passion than mine own heart may fathom. Lo, I drown within those seas upon thy face. Drag me to their depths and anchor mine heart among the shells and bones.

Perhaps it's the darkness creeping up
Or the hollowness echoing within
But your words melt before me
And expose your many sins

I can't believe it has come to this
A point of no return
But how do I ignore the pain
And heal where you burn

Within my hallowed maze you walked
Carving your initials all along the walls
You left no place safe for me
Within my own dreary halls

You always knew me,
Everything there was.
Just like your favorite tree,
You know every branch.
Until, that is, I could see.

I saw my voice was not strong,
So I made it loud, and proud,
And shouted it along,
So others may hear me say,
"I have my own song."

I saw none understand,
Why I was not being me
Yet I was finally able to stand
On my own two feet and I knew
All I needed was your hand.

So, I stand trembling,
Seeing so blindly,
Hoping your hand is stretching
Towards mine to finally grasp
Our reality, and begin it's mending.

I could use somebody
But not the likes of you
You and your twisted humor
Your bitter words
Sinking deep like icicles within
You, who rips apart my soul
Little pieces torn by sharp words
Your fiery emotions
Engulfing me, burning alive
But, I could use somebody
Just like you
You, with the ability to listen
Soak in my problems, make me ease
Your encompassing hold
Making me forget all
You, who smiles so kindly
Opening up all hearts
You, my rock to stand on
Never crumbling beneath my pressure
You, willing to break down
By my side, through it all
So I guess I need someone
Someone like you
But not you
And yet only you are worth it