I love the night
how the shadows fall all around
forming a cocoon about us
that cloaks the world in darkness
But there we lie
as lovers lie
holding one another tight
It's a small pocket of happiness
in a world so wracked with pain
It's one small place where love still grows
in the boundless garden of hate
So as we drift into our dreams
and listen as our heartbeats become one
we each bask in our warming glow
and leave the cold world to die
What do you know about love?
I've touched its perfect face
I've held it tight in my arms
and kissed it to sleep each night
What can you know about love?
If you can hate something so perfect
something so beautiful
something so real
that it brings me to my knees
When I see them walking hand in hand
with bright smiles across their faces
and a look of pure joy in their eyes
I know they've touched the same love I hold
and I could never deny anyone I loved
anyone I cared about
such a perfect union of souls
Some people spend their entire lives
up until their dying breath
looking for something this beautiful
searching for something this wonderful
and that's why I could never
not in a thousand lifetimes
stand between my love and her happiness.
I could never tell her who she is
or that what she's feeling is wrong.
But there you stand
soaking in the pouring rain
shaking your head violently
disgusted by some invisible shame
What do you know about love?
How can you touch love
when your heart is filled with fear and hate?
If you understood love
even grasped the meaning of the word
you'd know it takes a million different forms
each as perfect as the last
and though I can't hate you through all my pity
when I see the pain you cause
the tears you bring
and the misery you create
I break down and cry.
Because I know then
that you'll never know the meaning of love
the true meaning of love.
But yet, in your ignorance
in your blindness and hate
you crush something so perfect
so beautiful
that it still brings me to my knees
and for that I'll never forgive you
though I'll always pity you
as you wallow in your sea of pain.
I said "I love you" today
I tried hard to make you believe it
I tried hard to believe it myself
But the truth is that I hate you my love
I hate you now
and I hated you when I said it
When I look into your eyes
all that I can see
is a string of broken promises
lies stacked upon lies
things that you wanted to do but never tried
and the countless missed opportunities created by
the millions of precious moments I'll never get back
Yes, I hate you
I hate who you are
I hate what you've made me
and most of all I hate what we've become
Even if I could love you
and all of your cruel ways
I could never love what we've become
a sickening, rotten display of denial
a putrid example of naivete run amok
and a horrid case of idealism gone too far
I don't love you
but I love who you were supposed to be
I love what I thought you were
but you never understood yourself
you never make an attempt to understand me
and now no one
not even the Gods above
can understand us
So why, why do I say I love you?
Is it a reflex
or perhaps just words uttered in fear?
No, my love, I say I love you because they are just words to me
words like any other in the language
the only difference is that they're the ones you want to hear
and until you want to hear others
I'll repeat them to you again and again and again
just because I've lost the will to fight
I've lost the heart to argue
and I truly don't care enough to speak the truth
If that's your idea of love
then I hope you enjoy it
It's the way you made me
the way you taught me
the way you groomed me
and I hope you enjoy your "I love yous"
because I know you've worked so hard for them
and even though they're shallow and wasted
they're just like the love we share
I think even you can agree
that they're the perfect words for you
even if they're words just like
any other words in the language.
Whisper to God your prayers
to keep away the nightmares
Then dare to look inside
in that place where you hide
So wipe away the tears
and tell me all your fears
to compare them all to mine
you'll watch me cross the line
Show me the wrists that you slit
and tell me about your pit
then look deep into my eyes
and see where real pain lies
I know you can't compare
with my evil stare
So silence to all your lies
I'm deaf to all your cries
For you I can't feel
because your pain's not real
You may think you're dead
but it's all inside your head
Let time remove your tears
and get yourself away from here
because it's you that I seek
to feed the small & weak
It's now things turn bleak...
I've looked into a mirror
and scared myself to death
my eyes are so cold and evil
it's hard to draw a breath
I know that my pain is deep
so deep down inside
that there is not a single soul
no one for me to hide
My friends all say they care
and that they understand
but when I'm going through the valleys
I walk alone through this land
The days are darker than death
and take all of their time
and spend it all crushing me
what is this evil crime?
But the truth will be known
albeit when I'm gone
because my days are numbered
just like the words of a song
But until that day arrives
the mirror will be a sight
my eyes so cold, hollow
and black as the darkest night
So when we meet one day
don't sympathize over me
inside I've already died
so please just leave me be...
Leave me be....
I see it all
so clearly
the past
the future
the present
I see the blood and sweat
the pain and agony
the tortured betrayal
I've survived,
prevailed
through days of torment
and nights of angst
but for what?
what does it amount to?
it amounts to an old man
dying alone
counting the bumps in the ceiling
as death slowly enters
no faces of those I've loved
no one to hold my hand
and say it'll be alright
nothing to comfort me
in my silent solitude
nothing is left
but an empty shell
to be burried like the others
that and a trail of tears
spanning decades
flowing into a waterfall
at my feet
it'd be beautiful
if it wasn't so sad
but it's all that remain
of the struggle I won
only to lose in the end
It’s like standing in the middle of a field
with no trees
no animals
no one
Though the grass is green and lush
Though the sky is blue
the air is warm
smelling of sweet scents
and life is good
It’s empty
hollow
every sound I make echoes
off invisible walls
It’s lonely here
lonely without you
it only takes one person
to fill this vast space
one body to warm
the coldest nights
one pair of eyes and hands
to remind me it’s all ok
it’s ok to be alone
it’s ok to cry
It only takes one heart
to fill this space with joy
as long as that heart is yours love
only if it’s yours
Every night I lay there
alone in the darkness
etching into the wall
some magical symbol
ripped from ancient lore
It's a spell of love
and a curse of fate
Because it's fate my love
that made this bed cold
and my arms so empty
the hands that trace this symbol
into this wall shrouded in the darkness
should be strumming your hair
and pulling you tight
but not tonight my dear
nor the next so it seems
Because the spell I cast
upon this damnable wall
will not see light of day
until another night
another night like this
in which I can hold you close
and whisper softly to you
the words that I want to say
and the words that you want to hear
There would be a wake, an empty wake
of which few souls would dare partake
There would be tears, some useless tears,
from those I've met through all the years
There would be talk, a lot of talk
some talks of waste and my cut stalk
That is, if I died tomorrow...
I would lay in coffin black
with handles brass as if to fend
off some invisible attack
I'd lay so still but feel no pain
my eyes stay closed, not seeing the light
I shall never lose but never gain
That is, if I died tomorrow...
There would be a stone, a lifeless stone
over this grave I call my own
There would be grass, beautiful grass
who's beauty I could not try to surpass
There would be trees, tremendous trees
who soar to heights that only a bird sees
That is, if I died tomorrow...
We've loved
we've lost
we now know who we are
a different view
now keeps us apart
it ends like this my friend
We've grown
we've changed
we now see who we are
as tears now fill my eyes so deep
it ends like this my friend
We've laughed
we've cried
we now feel who we are
but the memories
now fade away
it ends like this my friend
We've danced
we've sang
we now hear who we are
but the song is hushed
as the music dies
it ends like this my friend
You shall be missed
dear friend of mine
your mark now left
but I have a different
trail to blaze
so it ends like this my friend
All I wanted was to hear you say
that you loved me and wouldn't sway
but your words came from far away
to remind me I'll be alone today
All I wanted was to see you
All I wanted was to be with you
All I needed was to reach you
I had all I needed to complete you
But holding your heart I'll be strong
humming the bars of the same old song
it feels so good it can't be wrong
But every day now seems so long
I want to hold you so I can say
I can feel your touch every day
It's a strange caress from ghostly hands
scratching my skin like grains of sand
I don't know what I would do if you were here
except whisper to you my dear
that for you I would gladly die
and carry your words to where I lie
But I'm left longing for the kiss
from the girl who's touch I miss
If I could I'd take your hand
and walk you through the shadow land
and when we came through the other side
I'd make a spot for you to hide
and there on the edge of darkness we'd complete
the circle that was meant to be
If I stand here silent
at any time of day
I can hear the hounds calling
calling me away
You see just beyond my realm
there's an endless sea of black
it's filled with drowning souls
but to them I turn my back
Their cries truly pierce my ears
and beat within my heart
Because I know their pain too well
and we're not that far apart
But I leave them there to cry
screaming from the pain
I know that many are dying
dying all in vain
But I can't go back to help them
because they'll pull me in
Instead I just freeze my heart
and ignore the screaming men
By the time they start drowning
I simply do not care
My escape was permanent
from that sea of black despair
So now it's onward that I walk
into the endless night
I leave the screams behind me
because it's not my fight
Maybe I'm cold and evil
but my fight still roars within
and if I turn back now
I know I'll drown again
So please forgive me
you poor souls in that hell
I simply can not help you
I'm just an empty shell...
I combed the earth in desire
Now gasping for breath my life is dire
I see the end I see the fire
the flames drown out the singing choir
Below the cloud that heaven brings
Lays a child of senseless things
But now I have to ask you why
there's not an angel as I die...
I lived my life all for my own
Now in death a toppled throne
Now the light's no longer shown
And in the fire I am thrown
Now the night falls long at last
I see so clearly my horrid past
All I can do is stay and cry
because there's not an angel in the sky...
I know in time the tears will pass
I lay there encased inside my brass
My soul is empty, turned to glass
My body gone now feeds the grass
The earth is now my hellish home
It's now the place I'm doomed to roam
But now I see your lie
I'm not an angel when I die...
Open up the wounds
let the heartache flow again
watch me turn to my addictions
and let temptation be my guide
I'll quell the pain with thoughts of lust
drown the tears in temporary joys
as I'm tripping up the stairs of life
falling on every step I climb
It's a blind charge through endless repetition
running into doors I've closed
with a history of lies
I can't do the things I love anymore
I only love one thing now
and it calls to me
at times like these
like a lover lost in the night
it finds me with open arms
and pulls me aside
Am I strong enough to win this fight?
Can I do this all again?
As my strength cracks and breaks
I see how I've lied to myself
about the twisted merry-go-round I'm riding
and how long I can hold on
before I'm hurled aside for good
Because even though there's determination
lurking within my eyes
I can still feel myself fading
disappearing within my mind
There is no exit from this place
There is no victory to be found
Just another day of trials
another day to watch myself grow weak
It's just my fate
and the cross I bear
watching life turn around
spinning with the hands of the clock
opening up everything that was old
memories I tried to forget
become new again
and I'm sliding
as I’m racing to the end
holding on as strong
as my shattered will allows
waiting until I finally slip
and drift into nothingness
losing myself for good
and forever ending
this senseless repetition
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