I am drowning
Within a soul

Seeking light
Within all encompassing darkness

Snoring
Within the pouring rain

Opening drawers
Within a house I never lived in

Cheering endlessly
Within the game of life

Forgotten
Within the likes of you

Of all the thoughts on my mind, none can compare to
The feelings of emptiness, despair, and lack of hope
Brought to me by the challenge of a new day
Why can happiness and I not elope?

I always feel like dancing when we re-unite
Swaying gently on a breeze
Glistening in the light
But then fear and dread begin to seize

And the next thing I know...
I've dropped like lead
Cold, hard, motionless
I don't leave my bed

Days go by before I feel that way again
And I'm never sure if it is I who feel it
Or some character in a book I read
I feel as if I shall go mad and throw a fit

Why do I go on?
What is the purpose?
You have left me.
I can't resurface

Happiness, my love, where have you gone?
Why have thou deserted me?

There is intelligence on this earth
There is intelligence in this sky
But there is no intelligence in your eyes
Oh, you made me cry

Things are as they once were
As they once were, they are

They will be as they once were
As they once were, they will be

They are as they will be
As they will be, they are

*Nothing goes away

Months have passed but it only seems like days
Now years have past and seems to have been months
Decades are gone and it only feels like years you have been gone

Time is a memory
Memory is everlasting
We live each day as the next
As the last has just past

It's all right here
Able to be plucked forth at a moment's notice
We never really forget

Upside down and around the corner
I get a glimpse of the girl i used to be
Curly hair and crooked teeth
A sparkle in her eye
On a quest to answer Why?

Why does the grass grow green
Why does the cow say moo
Why do the stars only come out at night

That funny, silly little girl
Is sitting here all grown up
Her rose-colored glasses all scuffed up
The quest is the same

Why does the heart long for what it cannot have
Why do we feel pain
Why cant the little girls stay the same