I am always alone
When the sun has sunk
And all of you have wandered home
I am left with voices that whisper

Inside my head
Lies or truth
It matters not
For I am trapped

There is no one to pull me out
Left alone in the dark
With the dark
God why
Why does the darkness whisper

When I was young I looked upon the stars
And heard that they were old

Moments slip quietly to minutes
While days blur into years

When twenty winters past I looked again upon the stars
And felt that they were cold

I tried to take my time
Always walk from place to place

But the ground must move beneath me
How quickly I seem to run around the sun

Moments slip quietly to minutes
While memories fade into dreams

When I was young I gazed upon the stars
And listened as they told me that they were old

But here I am looking up one final time
So old that I'm alone

And they are still all together
As bright as when I first looked up

Perhaps we have it wrong
And we are old not them

For I'm no longer there to look upon the stars
While they wander ever on

As we insist upon running around the sun
Claiming that we are young

I can hear the sound of tomorrow approaching
It starts as a tremor in the earth
That soon becomes a rumbling in my bones

As I lie here on the ground
The stars begin to shake
I close my eyes so they'll not fall from the sky

My fingers grasp handfuls of grass
For in the spinning darkness
Earth threatens to let me go

The last grains of sand have fallen
Upon my face light has grown bright
Though it does not hail the end of night

Within the silence that exists between heartbeats
I wonder if this was the right thing to do
For as the trio of lights become an inseparable sun

I realize I can think only of you
But too late
I'm tied to this fate

The stars have stopped shaking
Tomorrow is no longer approaching
And the midnight train rolls through

I stumble past the paths we walked in light
Yet now alone

Enveloped in tendrils of impending night
Fear coils across my bones

Laboured breath pronounces my plight
As from within the trees you start to moan

A blanket of fog snakes within your wake
And I scream lies of undying hate

Secrets shared upon paths filled with slanted light
Sadly I've found offer no respite from what stalks the night

There was a man
Who with his hands
Pressed
Against this glass
Screamed
As he watched his wife
Pulled
Beneath these roaring waves

But he could not hear
Her desparate plea
For him to finally
Please let her go

My heart it bleeds
For the man now on his knees
Silent
As his tears
Splash
Against this glass

Remember the time
When we kissed beneath these stars

Before light left the night
When you swore we would always be alright

Yet now I stand beneath these stars
Clutching the shattered pieces of your broken heart

And though they cut me so
I can not bear to let you go





Oh stranger in the rain
Please remember we who died

Only to prove the might
Of those who fear the night

There is no destiny other than the one we forge within the fires of risk
Knowingly going so far into the furnace that the cost will be your life

There is no light amid the darkness that is life unless we carry a candle
But this candle casts light only for others

If we wish to navigate the winding paths of life
We must walk close to those we name brothers

There is none that died in our stead to forgive the heartless dead
So we must face the blame and take on others pain

There is nothing but lies until I tear through the shroud that surrounds me
Understanding this plague that brings me gasping to the ground is me

My own lies are what choke me so
And my heart pumps hatred as poison through my screaming veins

As I feel my soul begin to slip through my fingers
Here on my knees I glimpse you through the trees

So lost in strife with life that you do not care
That once within the forest you've entered madness' lair

As my crimson soul gushes from my mouth onto this blackened ground
I know what it is I must do

Accept Gehenna's everlasting embrace
Endure the burning pain

Use the dying spark that is my life to ignite the flames
And become a light within your night