days of hurt
and nights of blood

they all fall together
melding into a scar
of the deepest gold
that shines and
blinds the observer

see only my pain
hear only my cries

you never look
for my words
or for my smiles
only tears
and wounds
that can never heal

just loneliness
and emptiness
that's never filled

blackness invades
every crevice
of my hope
and leaves me
only a shattered solitude
that i'll never fix

follow me down
words and silence
and hope and fear
just follow me

crawl across my soul
feed me your sin
and your hate
trample me

tear apart my life
let me bleed
into your mind
and die at your feet

feed me your lies
leave a few quarters
for the riverman
and let me go

minds so blank
full with thought
of time and space
in web they've caught

built in silence
sewn with pain
tiny stitches
torn in vain

all a circle
what's to come
killing all
and everyone

thoughtless endings
lifeless time
we are the rulers
hope confined

kill us gently
let us go
for all but children
never know

we're all the angels
and all the sins
a sea of hatred
where life begins

the birth of violence
the end of time
each, to give us
what was mine

for just the soundings
and nothing more
i hear the crying
not like before

when life was chaos
and time was full
of hope and smiles
and push and pull

now just this silence
and tiny scars
that fill our daydreams
from afar

the endless rhyming
and all it's pain
express the demons
that life sustains

it's built on magic
unopened gifts
that simply kill us
as virtues drift