Smiling faces
Shine so bright
Staring blindly into the night
A million tiny friends
Sending winks of encouragement

Search the skies
Find the secrets
The stars can tell
Gamma rays
Falling in flickers for fire
Penetrate the earth�s shell
While quakes of reality
Shatter my soul
Destroying what innocence
Is left of my youth
Leaving me alone
To rebuild
Stronger walls
Built
By experience
Fortifying what�s left
Of this fragile innocence

Leaving me to quiet
That frightened child
Sobbing in my mind
Wailing in my heart
Crying for the past

The fall of the tears
I can taste in my mind
As I hear the rhythm
Of the lost and frightened
Voice of my childhood
I look at the sky
And hear the call
Of the rhythmical stars.