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Has Been Memories
Now you’re only important in dimming has been memories
Now you’re like the others that conjure up in me apathy
Bonds said to be unbreakable still can wither away
Now just strangers I knew as irreplaceable in by gone days
Things that you think will always surely last
Things once thought invincible crumble fast
This should feel like a world ending tragedy
But I feel very little other than fury and disrepair
You were a colossal part of my dust covered history
Yet now of you in the present I’m hardly even aware
Sure it would be nice if everything turned out differently
Sure it would be grand if we weren’t now common enemies
What we’ve built for three decades has been condemned
There’s no way for a wound on a dead body to mend
Fools and religion have always gone together so well
I pushed you off your pedestal and enjoyed it as you fell
Your God isn’t real but your stupidity is very easy to see
I hate what you are and you no longer belong around me
Your self righteous pathetic plague abducts my fond memories
You deserved the shelling I sent you and then I sent no sympathy
People that you think will always be there
People that for you no longer care
As children those special days and nights were only carefree
But now I can’t unsee all your self indulgent warped idiocy
Something you think will always last
Something fades into the distance of the past
Long ago you were ruined by a book that worships men
I can feel me forgetting the better moments from back then
Long ago your mind was taken by a book created by men
I show you logic and you close your eyes again
Has been memories
Washed up history
What we built burned from the inside and was condemned
A wound on the dead will never be able to mend
Has been memories
Washed up history
What we had now feels like it was never even real
A wound on a corpse never will heal
Sometimes even the strongest relationships seem forged
Sometimes all families seem to be counterfeit
Invulnerable bonds broken easily by genuine hypocrites
Sometimes even the strongest friendship seems forged
Sometimes we all seem nothing but counterfeit
Invulnerable bonds broken easily by genuine hypocrites
Invincible becomes irreparable
All that matters will someday shatter
All that you hold dear is so fleeting
All that you hold dear incinerated by mistreating
Sometimes it feels like we’re all a sham of shallow
Sometimes it feels like everything is just material and hollow
Invincible becomes irreparable
Invincible becomes irreconcilable
Into my shuddersome nightmares our decline I project
Within my nightmares on our bleak future I reflect
Your house now filled with sullen sad silence
This place and its magic moments once felt beautiful
Now yet all we shared is buried under so much dreadful
Within my nightmares is our remnants
This place once occupied by smiles now dreary and desolate
With my nightmares is our remnants
I can’t believe after so long we’re now dead and distant
In my nightmares for us I cry
But I feel indifference for you when I open my eyes
In my nightmares for us I have had many nostalgic tears
But when I awake I feel like we have nothing after all these years
Invincible becomes irreparable
Invincible becomes irreconcilable
I miss what we had back in our more innocent days
Your trees and grass now grey where we used to play
Invincible becomes irreparable
Sullen silence
Invincible becomes irreconcilable
Now lifeless
By Adam Keith McElwain
Copyright Adam Keith McElwain Poetry
