Love or run To scared to love To brave to run Now stuck Listening for spirits to guide me down this path My past ground Muddy and grey Not pure dirt But mud made by my fathers blood and tears, fresh and old And the shards of my mothers heart that she walked away from long ago For all that I have left by the road side My own shattered trust and dreams Left in the darkness of the forest The place I call home Shaded away from the blinding sun These are the covered paths that I walk Alone in the end I know For all that I love The life lines that I grasp onto Will only fade into memory Then ever distant still So there monsters of the dark I face As they lurk about in shadow Watching me as I try to decide The meadow Where I lay open Naked And exposed To not only my company and the knife I know he carries But to the red eyes awaiting me and my weakness Or do I remain in the darkness with my demons I am able to hide And trust my land Alone still to sleep with an eye open Under the shelter of the trees To love or to run To live long and alone Or to die in blissful anguish and fear