The battle is never over until hope is lost

I have no heart so there's nothing to protect
I feel no love
There's no pain to expect

The root to all my pain is you
You implanted the seed of hate within me
These poisoned tears I shed for you

Born from darkness, you resent me
I am the incarnation of your suffering, of your nightmares
But with a halo of innocence, I was banished nonetheless
The core to all my anger is you

The years went by, and in solitude I was raised
A corrupted innocence I held thanks to you
I watched as humanity showed it's ugly face,
Oh how the flames licked away all that was pure
The world of my hate is you

Leaving behind the stolen purity
I embarked on a road of loneliness and suffering
To seek the strength that you failed to achieve
I became cold and of stone, my pain made me strong
Made me lose my humanity
The monster of my nightmares is you

Even though the years have passed, and now I have skin of steel
There's an empty hole where my heart should be
Still waiting for the day you'll fill it with love
Even if my being will reject it, and my body will shut down at the unknown feeling
To have known that at least a little bit of love was held for me,
Would have been worth dying
The reason I'm scared to love, is you

Fell for the Mask
Was fooled by the illusion
Thought it was my light
That it was hope;
It was nothing but a reflection from the porcelain lie

Slipped into the fantasy,
And now the Mask starts to crack

Crevices part through the facade
And I fall
I fall into the darkness behind the Mask
To a place where there's no light
Not anything to shine upon the harsh reality

I made this Mask
I put it on willingly;
Now I crumble alongside my Mask of lies

I was hurting, I tried to prove myself
I suffered the weight
I toughed out the burden
Yet tossed aside was I

Too weak
Far beneath
The help was not enough

To please the leaders
Bear your whole
Show your burden
For disgrace to acclaim
You're nothing but a waste

Fight, run, struggle all you wish that's not a man
That's not a warrior

Do all you will
Sacrifice all you have
It'll never be enough
Alas, you were never enough

There's no point in loving what kills you
There's no sense in chasing what isn't really there
There's no meaning to a life without someone who will remember you
There's no reason to keep on fighting for faded dream

Marveled as a rare beauty
The black pearl shines upon the heavens
A celestial body of his own construct
Marvel at the resonance of sorrow

Did he rise through the seas to reach the mighty heavens?
Did he escape the darkness of the deep?
How did such beauty mark the realm of gods?

A twinkling contradiction up on the vast unknown
A black pearl shining through the calm oceans of solitude
Kneel before the majesty of uncharted heavens branded

Truth be told however,
He never rose from the deep, never departed from the burning waters beneath
This celestial body didn't brand the land of dreams

Such deep woes are the tears he creates as he looms ever closer
Falling upon the earth and land of man
This beauty is burning bright into collision

Marvel not at the enthralling light
But at the flame that dares defy the gods
Behold the black pearl that denounces immortality
The black pearl that accepts reality
Regard not that which could be,
But that which is
Witness the Falling Star

It hurts your joy
Have you forgotten of me?
The dates and lies

To substitute creation
For the god who refused birth

Demon or devil
Am I evil for choosing life?
Am I condemned to choose a new path?

You chose your scapegoat
Am I wrong for choosing fate?
For new life
For new fate
Should I be condemned

Please God, do not make me choose
Between desire and fate
Who will survive
Suffering or dignity
Alas, I'm a failed star

Do not reject us
The love unfed
The hurt with no beginning
The rejects to birth

Should the mighty Oak fall
Sound would not sing its demise
Into the abyss would it fall to never be claimed

Such deep powerful roots
Kept within the dark soil
Safe from reality
Hidden from the mystery yet held within the light

Of withered leaves, crumbling branches
What will become of the roots
Will they thrive within ignorance
Should they choose salvation through it

When the tragedy at last gives up
Will all the chains be severed?
Should the roots ever see sunlight
Will they dry up
Will they die off

If the faux oak ever falls
The roots will dissipate
Fooled and ignorant
The light never touched them
Toxins never entered their system
Alas they bid farewell to the mighty Oak

Abandoned and abused
Forsaken and betrayed
The toxic cycle of the broken

We strive for greatness
We aim for brighter futures
Yet we cannot leave behind the smudged ***** past,
To allow the wounds to heal with time

Neglected and rejected
Hated and resented
Such is the perpetual hell we live in

We aspire to break the chains
We prepare for success and the dreams that gleam in the dark
How can such dreams become reality when we can't let go of the nightmares?
How can we walk ahead when all we do is look back?

Desperate and hopeless
Nihilism and Cynicism
Such are the foundations of dying hearts
The very poisons of the soul

We scream and cry, bleeding and struggling
We fight for the light at the end of the tunnel, for a brighter horizon
How can such determination not be commendable?
How is this not the difference between Living and Surviving?

Desire and hope
Faith and love
Such is the duality of humanity,
The redemption of Man