Your voice resides
In the noise it hides
To come back and haunt me

All the things I couldn’t see
All the things I couldn’t feel
All the lies nobody would reveal
All I couldn’t run from
As the tempest rages on
Never to be calm
Until you have won

A truth I can’t erase
Something you can’t rephrase
Or make better at will
Time, in this moment
Forever standing still

You’d tell your heart to play its part
But through it all
You were condemned from the start
With dried up tears
You’ll still be chased by fears

As all goes on
Your shadows dawn
Eclipsed by shreds
You’re still facing the mirror’s edge
So forever you’ll hedge

Marking your skin
So the monster won’t win
Even if created by kin

You’ll drain your soul
To bury the goals
Of dreams long past
Your self fading ever so fast
Swallowed by the abyss so vast
Where all your hopes are cast

You’ll suffer the pain
For a momentary gain
You’ll keep paying the price
For a lasting sacrifice

Paying the toll
You’ll stay empty
Just like a doll
Until all is dark
And you begin a new arc
Set upon the existing mark

Trying to dry your tears
And chase the fears
So you can go on

Forever so long...

In a mirror-shattered hell
Whispers are dying to tell
The secrets from a hidden well
Composed and broken
In a quiet shell

All the horrors in these eyes
Could light up eternity its fires
With wishes to scream
Inside an empty mind
And dream

Wallow in cries
While a shallow heart dies
Blood seeping through and through
No more lies to hold onto

These poison-polished souls
Have no place to grow
In this maze
So perfect to behold
The shadows’ touch is too cold
For any roots to take hold

Stuck in complacency
Facing calamity
Suffocating disillusionment is near
Can’t you see that, my dear?

In demons you find
The strength to fight
The human trait
That gave power to fate

Greed or hunger
A malingering farce
That’s claimed your heart
Will forever linger

The worth of pretense
It’s sometimes the only defense
To claim you really are that dense
So you can stay on the fence

Recognition is the price
For a freedom to sacrifice
Shallow depths to drown
In waters all your own

Go for submission
And spare the false contrition
You’re free to instill
A truth
A worldly one, if you will

Regrets and mistakes riddled
In a fading abyss
Where services long past rest
Are shackles at the soul’s behest

Crawling in the ashes of perception
False comforts ring as hollow realities
Bound, unbreaking, unyielding
To withering ideologies

In the demagoguery of fears
Hearts are burning so bright
When their truths are set alight
Never to cross the surface in their plight

The detriments born of desire
Create the fuel to a new kind of fire
Seizing the boundaries
Consuming rationality

In decisions to face
Creations belie
The beauty and foulness
Where reflections
Of imperfection
Die