Looking forward, thinking back
She was here, now she’s gone
My soul painted black
I’m a night without dawn

Circling round
Again and again
I feel so unbound
Though imprisoned within

She left me in darkness
This loveless, cold shell
This rotting man carcass
Perpetual hell

In love, out of time
I knew this would come
All that's left is this rhyme
And my heart’s beating drum

The pain is unreal
Not seeing her face
To no longer feel
What quickened your pace

Still the tune of my end
Serenading my stride
Your will can not bend
When you’ve already died

Now with nothing left
No spark to diminish
Of love I’m bereft
So I race towards the finish

To sprint through this life
With her memory near
To remember this strife
But forget this fear

The future awaits
Each step will ensure
What two tested fates
Can truly endure

Still I run far away
To distance my mind
To chase down the day
I might leave her behind

Heaven is no place to rest
Or acquiesce to ignorance
More sacred than thou's holiest
Oblivious omniscience

A bliss you think you understand
The powers of each son of man
Entitle him to own this land
As kingdoms under one command

Usurp the throne to which your bounds
Have left you chained to lesser crowns
Then take your highest mortal grounds
And put them down with dogma hounds

Look around and feel the earth
Absolve you of all sin and worth
Desire tombs devalued dirt
Has ever been your afterbirth

Just cut the cord and leave the den  
The lone wolves pen this story's end
While counting sheep just play pretend  
That lion's share the true godsend

Although the Andes melt away
Beneath Pichincha clouds of gray
And Cotopaxi shakes the ground
With aftershocks of Spanish crown
Pizarro's cut my Incan rose
My Amazon unconquered flows
From my Quichua eulogy
To Rumiñahui effigy
A martyr for a higher cause
Than dying for her fatal flaws

Granted
A glimpse
Of the glint
Flash of brilliance
Illusory
Figments
Of some
Mental illness

Perhaps it was fate
That brought you to me
But in love at first sight
I prefer serendipity