~ Once ~

Once
3.30.04

I watch through the sun
Blotting out my vision
Killing what was within

I watch through your face
Scowling, but loving all the same
And I am falling farther away

I have no one left to cling to
When the nights grow cold
The voices in my mind are all I have
And they grow old- so quickly

Good-night, dear child
You’re chained
Your thoughts were wild and free from this

I hear through the veil
Words of passing, betraying, decaying away
Leaving emptiness on this side
This time

I hear through your voice
You are not who you show above the mask
Lies- suffocate when they are bred by your lips

I have no one left to cling to
When the nights grow cold
The voices in my mind are all I have
And they grow old- so quickly

Good-night, dear child
You’re chained
Your thoughts were wild and free from this

Good-night, dear child
You’re chained
Your thoughts were wild and free- once

Once upon a time
Once upon a moment
Once upon a lie
So you sit and cry
So you wallow in the slippery memories
That falter and fade from me

<--- fall into my patterened tears... [return]
<---<--- catch me as i fall? [AA]