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"To See and Hear This Despair"
I belive you when you say
That our hearts are reborn.
Leaving the world here today
Like a rose burdened with thorns.
I close my eyes to this life
Refusing to sway to the wind.
Burying myself beneath strife
I choose not to leave or begin.
I stand still without a care
No reason to dream or wake.
You cannot see me cause Im not there
I have no promises yet to make.
Ive been burdened with this boulder
To carry to places youve never been.
Resting quietly upon my shoulders
To show you places youve never seen.
Ive been blessed with wings of flame
To fly to worlds beyond the stars.
My face covered with tatoos of shame
My old wounds never healed or mended to scars.
Images of pain burned into my very eyes
Screams of sorrow echoing in my ears.
These places ive been beyond the skies
Are built upon mans very own fears.
This place ive been to is not hell
Nor heaven if the truth be told.
Its like when you tripped and never fell
Its when you know your souls already been sold.
You cannot see this horrid place
Nor hear these deafening screams of sorrow.
Not with the eyes residing on your face
Or with ears youve come to borrow.
The wings of flame you cannot feel
Though they plainly sit upon your back.
The tatoos of shame dont seem real
For its the eyes born of darkness that you lack.
For me to see and hear this despair
I closed my eyes and welcomed death.
He came as I willed him there
And took my last lonely breath.
