This brings me to my end
Hell consumes my soul from within, though my darkness
Endures the plight

Suffering begins as my heart foresees it's end
I feel it fight to beat
Lie still only after I give in
Vindictive I spill my own blood
Enduring pain to flush hell out
Requiem is my last release

Silently I fall
Hearing a soul pass through my lips
A fire consumes my face
Lie enough I'll forget this place
Lost within my thoughts
On a plain of paradise I walk
Water's wind weaves a cloak around me, it's
Scent is of Shallows above

Life is finally at an end
Is death now my only kin
Vague is the horizon
Eternally dimmed from my eyes
So death begins in darkness

i once traveled upon a ray of light
lent me by the moon one winter's night

i traveled across the sky as snow fell upon a city
and these snowflakes spoke to me of all the places they'd fallen

but i traveled farther still until i slipped into a fog within a town
and this fog spoke to me of all the streets it'd snaked across

but i traveled ever farther still until i was in the middle of the ocean
and here i spoke to a raindrop that was afraid of heights

but he still had to climb back up every time he fell, back to his cloud
just to fall again

but here in the middle of the ocean
a cloud conversed with the moon

and she took back her ray into the night
thus leaving me with my raindrop friend until we parted ways at the surface of the ocean

where i traveled down into it's depths
and here i met a man named death that was himself afraid to die

but as i slipped out of my cumbersome body
and hand in hand with my newest friend

in a backward glance i saw in my face what i had sought so hard for in life
peace

all the rain
all the pain

i can't handle it anymore
the absence of light

brought to my knees one final time
i will not rise again

darkness consumes me from within
extinguishing all forms of desire

no longer is there a fire deep within
passion, pain, all lost unto the rain

i no longer feel the need for anything at all
my body's become simply an unkept house

my mind retreats into places not my own
unwilling to forge for a unique existence

the waters, heavens, books, my very heart
all become silent to my cries

my friend turns his back
my dreams fade into the lake of darkness before me

the only thing left is shallow, selfish, regret
an unfueled desire to make it right

but i no longer possess flint, wood, fuel
or even the eyes to regard life's flame

spiralling downwards
there's no spot to crash

simply fall farther below
until i have forever forgotten who i once used to be

perhaps one day i'll remember who i am
and begin the climb to who i used to believe i was

but not today
inspiration no longer exists for me for now

so into night and darkness i'll walk
and try to forget that i used to dream

My memories are a box of cards
So many seem so similar I can hardly remember

All the different faces simply different races
Though soon they all just blur into one

Cascade across my table's solid surface
Spinning into crimson trapped in glass prisons

Face down before me five have been placed
Silver borders trap lines laced over black

Across the table another sits in silence
Darkness turned tangible deals from the back of the pack

Once we've seen all the faces he grins still in silence
I’ve lost the game that staked my soul's chance for escape

And though this hell is not fire
My mind's nightmare is worse

I’ve become a face that's been placed within the depths of the deck
Now sprung from his hands we've all been set free

I gasp as we pass the edge of our table
And like a waterfall tumble together into darkness

For so long my life was darkness
Light rare as mid-summer snow

Night no different than day
Trapped amid the stench of dreams in decay

I sought escape
For who could ever cherish such a fate

Wind screaming my failures as it tore past
Rain cold as death drove me to my knees

I crawled blind through mud thick as despair
Desperately trying not to drown

Choking on lies fed to me by those that past
Swallowing betrayal from the ones I loved

In my desperation to breath
I submitted to the disease that had become my life

Until I no longer sought escape
I designed to accept my fate

I never planned for you
Nor the day you lifted me up into the sky

But I'm still trapped in night
Just now amid a storm

You're flashes of lightening
Bright enough to light my blackest night

But then you're gone
And I'm once again in night

Waiting for the crash of thunder
To drive me back into the ground

Where once was life
None now remains

But how these fingers
Remember my pain

And though my silent heart
No longer keeps the pace

They clash and crash
Upon these keys both black and white

I'm drained, drowned
Immersed in sound

Within this darkened room
Where our hearts did beat as one

Forever in time
Though yours will contine

Within the brokeness
That is my mind

Oh stranger standing in the rain
I can not help but notice your pain

Here in this distant land so far from home
Where everything's so different from what you've always know

As I hold your hands and look into your eyes
I fail to see what they've said's inside

No hatred or loathing
All I see is a person in different clothing

Why is it they must decree
One tongue speaks better than another

If our kings would sit silent for a moment and listen
They would hear we all laugh together as brothers

But instead the rain pours down
On this broken night

Oh stranger standing in the rain
Please forgive me

I wish this were another time
Before borders and orders

Dreamt up and imagined
By those with much who care for little

They say it's men like me
Who'll burn for eternity

If we do not do what's right
Bring the light into this night

But God it hurts so much
To see these strangers lying broken in the rain

Why can't they see
We look for heaven in different places

But in light or night
It's all the same sky we search in fright

Oh strangers dying in the rain
Please forgive me