Endless nights
Upon my throne.
I sit as still as a stone.
One big heap of cloth and bone
That wishes to be left alone.
The dark consumes.
I've lit a flame,
But shivers still will wrack my frame.
My eyes fall shut as sleep will claim.
It makes no difference all the same.
With eyes that pierce,
Hands that claw,
And nightmares that hold fears so raw,
I beat at teeth inside the maw
That trap me with my fatal flaw.
No one knows that I keep score.
I stole the key and locked the door.
My sanity has hit the floor,
With actions that I now deplore.
Lost in fear
Blind in hate
And in those words I've sealed his fate.
Apologies are said too late.
A gamble with a price too great.
Hope is lost.
Schisms made.
Boundaries formed, and trust betrayed
So far from purpose I have strayed
That thoughts that shouldn't form have stayed.
I am not strong.
I am not brave.
I'll take these secrets to my grave.
And with that I've become a slave
To all the ways that I behave.
So many things
I can't take back.
My hatred grows where virtues lack.
The bet is made, the odds are stacked.
But I'll slip through the nearest crack...
I urge myself to stay awake.
Whatever pain I'm forced to take,
I will not bend,
I will not break!
Not with all our lives at stake!
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Leave evils to molder
And the truth to rust.
Now you walk in and say I must
Lay down this crown and show you trust?
We both are flawed.
We both stand tall.
But I'm most human of us all.
And so I walk these empty halls
Knowing that I'm soon to fall...
Chances gone, time to run.
Cannot stop what has begun.
I will not change for anyone.
We are 9, but I am 1.