For every bit of advice on the matter For every warning and caution against it He would still give his heart like a fool if he could But time has made him bitter Time has given him every moment he needed To become wary of what he tells others He has become a secretive creature When it comes to those matters deepest to his concern
True, he sings and dances and seems carefree True, he seems loving and compassionate But inside he is as cold and sad as any might be Too many times he has been lured to trust Each time he has suffered for obliging so Every hope for intimacy he has seen crushed Every dream of companionship he watched shatter Until only the one thing that gives him joy is left unstained
He has tried and tried to burn away the roots Of mistrust, doubt and suspicion that have grown in him That coiled and bound and climbed around his heart Transfiguring him into a blind and numb man Changed him as greatly as a storm does the coast Made him afraid of all the capricious good of life The changing tide of existence became his bane So that he hides behind a terrible, glorious, painted mask
People see of him the truth he wishes to obtain Thinking that perfect bliss in life is already his own Believing that he may be so happy and do so alone Not seeing how he craves to trust and feel it is well placed Seeing instead a man who fears nothing for the lack of secrets Not seeing the man who is unhappy in loneliness Only viewing the caricature of his abandoned ambitionsβ success And he was worn the lie so long that is the only truth
His heart has turned to dust and gone His soul sputters lamely against the sea of life Too long he has waited to forgive and say it is so Time has made him a hollow beast with a hollow shell He will act and act alone and never be at ease He will suffer and suffer alone and never know friends He will die and die alone and have forgotten love There will never be meaning to his words or deeds
He will never again have a soul to define himself with
My original work. I need some feedback on this one since it's really a draft.