I have to say in truth
this only happens when
loneliness and lost hope intertwines
trying to see through the tears in those eyes

can feel it inside
blooming in the mind
recreated replicated and reopened wounds such an evil intricate design

sliding into the abyss
emptiness darkness
won't find solace
at the bottom of the bottle
but give me another

every memory slips through
the cracks and escapes
like the lakes that pour from
a painful face

trace expressionless emotions
the tears in those eyes turn to hate
loneliness becomes bitterness
hope grows thorns to spread universal hate

this only happens when life
doesn't always turn out how it's planned
to be and one day at a time in
this intricate tangled web of a place

embrace the will to untie
try to make the knot final when
the strings of this puppetry
won't undo
that's all I can say when this happens
in truth.