Friday, July 7, 2006

Fading Hand

I stare out at the horizon
Of a charcoal grey sky
Hold my hands up to the rain
And I question why
If you saw me, could you be happy
Would you see me now
If it could be?
We'll never surrender
Cause this was forever
Lost in the embers
Still it severs
No place in time
No reason for the rhyme
Could not understand how
May be it could be now
Some how
Be myself again
Would you still be my friend?
If I was not strong enough
To make it last why could
I not let go?
Its burning and its fading fast
Was there something you
Wanted me to know?
Counting it out these
Footsteps inside of me
I only wanted you to be proud of me
Fall to the ground and I questions why
Look up to the sky, and I ask God why?
There was a chance
And it wandered in front of me
There's a chance that

It all was inside of me

Saturday, July 1, 2006

Never Know

Struggling, falling in my pain
Of all that I could not contain
Choking deep, can't catch my breath
In my whispers I ask for death
Sit in the filth of my own creation
Scream to God for an explanation
Why this torment never ceases
Why he left out so many pieces
That could at last have made me whole
These tattered shards I call my soul

These saddest rays
That cleanse my eyes
Of hope and pride
Commiserate with me
This crippled waltz
Vaguely resembling
What we always believed that love could be
And no one can see these tears as I drown
All the better
Never wanted sympathy
Just an end to the agony

Splayed with pain so deep
That I can not separate
Between it and me
Myself and the disease
All these questions that have no answers
Deep down I know I am the cancer
That killed all chance of hope and love
And life
The bitter taste of regret
Of lost chances and failed dreams
As my world is rent right at the seams
And I fall
Too weak to stand
And broken fingers can't hold a hand
And a singed throat that tastes nothing
But in my feast of ashes
What flavor is lost upon me anyway?

You came to me in weakness
And I lent you my strength
Yet when I fell with broken knees
There was naught you gave
Would you kill us both
To prove your point?
If so, than put the gun to my head
And do me first
For I have tasted all the worst
And all I look forward to is
Oblivion

Had I fallen wayward
I could blame myself
But blame myself I do
For all the fingers point back at me
But hearts still beat and
People still smile
As my own pulse slows
And my countenance disgusts me
I don't know why I hold on
But I have been told it is worth it
That things will get better
That I won't feel this way forever

But I have already felt this pain
Deeper and longer than
Anything in my past
A past rife with pain and sadness
And in a symphony of melancholy
This is the crecendo
Where do I go from here?

I was always honest with you
Perhaps to a fault
My fault, I realize
That's the way it is
When love takes time
And we think before we decide
We are left to the sidelines
Of those who don't care for
Themselves or for others
When we do what we can
With what we are given
Some people are born under
Lucky stars, and timing greets
Them with open arms
But for the rest of us
Those that time and fortune
Do not smile on
Those who are scorned
For the difficulty of their
Own hearts
Those from the outside
That can't understand
Or don't believe
Or won't receive
Our cries for help
And forgiveness
But there is another
Side to this
A side that we could not
Reach, but I side we know
A piece that we can put
Back together
If ever given that chance
But severed from that one desire
That one hope
That which means more to us
Than life itself
And so deeply denied
And the onlookers that don't understand
Why a road can make us cry
Or conversations inside we die
And those on the outside
They don't know, or care
Or try, or understand
They walk away, angry
And defeated
Not knowing what they left behind
Never having given the time
To make a difference
Of indifference
Of knowing what layed beneath a soul
Pinned beneath forces of nature
And chemicals, and circumstance
And this and that, and whatever
And no one remembers
The way it really happened
Only their opinion mixed with emotion
Of how they felt but never spoke
And let go of rather than try
Rather than believe
In those eyes looking right
Back at them, and into a heart
That closed itself
And refused to open
And two crash into the darkness
And neither knows how to heal
Without the other
But they will never know
The promise of tomorrow
The possibilty of change
The strength of hope
They will never know

They will never know