Each and every day that passes by,    
I can't help but hear more cries.
As tears drop down their face they drown,
swallowed by the dark black crown.    
    
Thrown into this awful game, where all I know is hate and blame,
I won't let it deceive, the light recieved
As the time ticks by, and the blood turns dry,
I can still see, the love inside thee.

I know that this puzzle is too hard
But yet I can't give up, for they've been scarred
And I want to save them I swear I do
But something deep inside has turned to goo

It says deep in my blackened heart
that I couldn't tell was drifting apart:
"Hey, you know I might not dislike this,
this, endless maze that is so merciless"  

It wants revenge for those who've hurt it
It wants to get rid of all things bound to it
It knows no bounds only pain and suffering
It only truly knows the word suffering

And it turns your soul from A golden hue
To nothing more than an endless blue
Deep within this thing's inside me
Turning the bright light into negativity

In it's wake it's taken many lives
And I know it enjoys their cries
It makes me crazy to know it lives inside
But no longer will I let it hide

So to this second face I'm forced to wear
I challenge you to take my dare
"Just as you've put fear in the hearts of many
Watch as I bring light to more than plenty"

So in the end, I ask you this:
Who was the cat,
and who the mouse?
Was it the despair that sought to destroy,
or the hope that wished to protect?