Locked in a vice of my daring aware
Of the mistakes that I make in trying to care
Not a moment goes by that you don’t even see
Painful and wrecked by you sickeningly
Masked in an effort to remain in this pain
Here where forgotten shall not fall again
Never again from its watchtowers high
Where the ravens of yesterday barrenly cry
Bore you ever your name and spoke never of me
Passed your time in the dark of a wandering sea
Hell, forget me, forget me, I want you to go!
Know I’ll never forgive your expressionless show.
Barricade every door and shut out all the light
Consumed by the fires of a fast fading night
Jumping in the chorus of damned, do or die
I would cry to your heart but it mocks me, why try?
Never saw, nor have seen, the fool fell to disgrace
Always trusting of strangers with a last hope in grace
Failed me my eyes though such a simple man sees
What the wise man keeps looking for is never appeased.
Fair and focused in dredges, looking through every corpse
In the slums of this wasteland of loving recourse
I am slandered and petrified in vomiting tears
A victim and whore in the grace of god’s ears
Saying why don’t you love me, there’s so little I need
Just to love of someone who won’t cause me to bleed
Love’s peaceable passing of this be the sound
And to trust in the words that fall softly around
Rushing like waters not falling to dread
Simple sounds that draw peace and not terror instead
A word in the whisper to the victimless wise
Holding hope like the firelight in a young child’s eyes
Grossly misled and once more to this contraption
I again place my heart in its ruthless contraction
And watch as I plead to him turning the wheel
Dear god stop now, please, I can still barely feel!
Does he listen? No, just a small glance and smile.
It was all I had left in me, but not worth his while.