Pick up my armor

Let my phoenix rise

Release the doves

You have not taken me

My castle walls are still strong

Do not enter

Do not wake the dragon in its lair

You have not defeated me.

For the war has just begun.

The streets of my mind have run rampant

Things

Are

Disappearing

Scoundrels scavange

Please! Don’t take that!

They pillage my mind

Taint it

They are fleeing

Memories running away

Do not go!

I can extinguish these fires!

Please! Calm down!

Abandon the city

I have lost my mind.

They send you to this school

And said fill your head with knowledge

My head is full my dear

There is nothing else I can learn!

False.

The mutterings in the hallway

Cries in the night

Ribs through the shirt

Emptied my head

Columbus does not teach you how to survive

Aristotle does not tell you how to fight

Hemingway does not teach you pain.

They send you to this school

And said fill your head with knowledge

I emptied my head

And filled it with what I learned.

That’s what you wanted, right?

The storm is coming my dear.

And you are not prepared

You have tried your preparations

Boarded your windows

Rationed the food

Stored the generator

You are not prepared to lose everything

You are too young for this storm

But it shall come
  
It will take everything

Sweep you in the night

Do not worry

Let it take you

Let its waves pound

Succumb to the lightning

Let it draw you in.

Let go.

Fall into the storm

The fires of your youth are fading

Waters of insecurity

Waves of hurt

Hurricanes of pain

They are flooding your innocence

Raging fires dwindling

Save them my dear.

Fend of these swells

Fight my love

There are no lighters in the fields of innocence

You cannot rekindle what is dying

Fight off your demons

Dams can be built

Protect your innocence my love, for it cannot be rekindled.

I have wandered far away from home

And the breadcrumbs have disappeared

The excitement has run away

Call me back

Let me run into your arms

And be a child

I cannot hear your voice

But can you hear my screams?

I saved my love for you

And hid it far away

For the sun set to soon

And the moon was to eager

And you never met my love

And my love never saw you

The light will break

The sun shall rise

And I will show you my love

For it has not seen you in a while