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I've been the one left behind

I've been the one leaving

The pain we all have known

The loss that comes with time

Friends forgotten and loves lost

Hope left behind for new horizons

Little pieces of ourselves lost in the new day

The dawn is proof that the night was

Just as who we are is proof of who we were

Pain

Despair

Death

Atonement



He sat there staring at the blood upon his hands

When they were last clean none could say

The invisible stain death had left would not leave

He scrubbed and he scrubbed

Try as he might it was still there

Each time he looked at them he had to wash

With each cleansing he took a little more of his sanity



Pain

Despair

Death

Atonement



The people in his neighborhood all thought him strange

They told their kids to stay away

He saw the mistrust and despise in their glances

He felt the void of space they left around him

He felt anger and hatred when they looked away

They were the ones for whom he had killed

The very ones for whom he'd given his innocence



Pain

Despair

Death

Atonement



He withdrew steadily more with each passing day

Soon not a soul saw him and not one cared

They felt better without him and more at ease

None could understand the pain he had to bear

Not one of them wanted to see or hear

But there came a day when they were forced to see

That day they found his life spread upon the street



Pain

Despair

Death

Atonement



The mothers, fathers, and children all gatherd there

They watched in silence as he was taken away

The young all cried in their confusion

The adults replayed the words left for them in his note

As those grown looked down upon their hands

Then they really understood his silent curse

For upon their flesh they now saw stain of death



Pain

Despair

Death

Atonement

I can't stand the tears upon your cheeks

Exsanguination of a broken heart

Pasionate soul smoldering with dying flames



Let me hold away the cold

Let me kiss away the hunger

Let me whisper gone the pain

Let me stay until you're free



I could never leave when you're hurting

Illuminated in the full moon light

Solitary creature crying in the night



Let me hold away the cold

Let me kiss away the hunger

Let me whisper gone the pain

Let me stay until you're free



Revel in the silent night

Hearts and bodies lit on fire

Lying close in ecstasy



Hold me I'll put your soul back on fire

Kiss me I'll set your lonely night alight

Stay with me and we'll look forward to the night



Let me hold away the cold

Let me kiss away the hunger

Let me whisper gone the pain

Let me stay until you're free