Bleeding, bleeding, slipping away
Somehow I�m still breathing
I can hear the frightened beating of my heart
Tears stream down my face
I can feel them on my cheek
I weep to myself in this empty silence
I wanted to end the pain so bad
Try to kill it all away
But it just keeps coming back
I close my eyes to disappear
Lying here among the pieces of my life
All is still and quiet
And I�m still here
If only there was a place I could go
That was free of pain and death
Where I fly among the clouds
Caressed by the wind�s gentle hand
And shine in a blaze of glory
For once, not fall like Icarus
If only my heart knew love
Not the empty soul�s ache
That tears me apart each day
To be wanted, needed, is to exist
So I am barren nothingness
When only loneliness is constant
If only I could be released
From the bonds I forged myself
To push away these stifling walls
Break the chains of self-doubt
Pierce through the dark cloud of fear
Overcome this endless night
I wish you knew how I felt
I wish you understood my pain
I wish you would listen for once
And not always cast me down
If you could read my thoughts
For only a second
Maybe you would see why I cry
Why things are what they are
I can�t seem to reach you
You always put up a wall
You refuse to hear me out
Why do you act like you hate me?
Why do you make me feel like nothing?
Why won�t you help?
I have nothing, no one
If you�re not there,
What do I have left?
Your words hurt me so much
They cut me like a knife
Please stop, I can�t bear the pain
Don�t do this to me
Of everyone in the world
I thought you would be the last
To make me suffer so much.
Catch me, I�m falling
I scream but no one hears me calling
Plummeting to dark waters below
So cold where death is slow
Covering me, swallowing me
The waters of anguish are drowning me
Pulling me deeper in
Silencing the cry within
So I fade and still no one hears
As I drown in a sea of my own tears
I am a broken person
Like shattered glass at my feet
Shards of a fragile soul
The remains of my defeat
Like a crystalline trinket
So I fall and I break
Into pieces of lost hope
Leaving slivers in my wake
Broken dreams, crumbling life
I have been cut too deep
I have to walk on this glass
Blood mingles below and I weep
Where has my soul gone?
Where is the spirit that once kept me alive?
What happened to all the joy?
The laughter on which I used to thrive?
Taken away so brutally
Flowing out like blood from my veins
It faded with the winter�s gray
Leaving a scar and measureless pains
It left me cold, withered and hollow
So empty where it used to reside
I need not fear the hand of death
When I am already dead inside
In the black pit where it once lived
There is nothing but an ache
A cry for its hopeless return
While I feel my lonely heart break
Nienna walks like a shadow at night,
Passing unseen and unheard,
Knowing all sadness, evils and plight;
Bearing the weight of the world.
She weeps for all sorrows that befall
In endless rivers of tears that flow.
Cloaked in dark raiment, hooded and tall,
She cries for Arda, all its pains and woe.
A melancholy lament she weaves;
No sadder song can there be.
For every soul suffering she grieves,
Crying beneath the Silver Tree
Yet those who hear her lamenting dirge
Learn in endurance hope will emerge.
I see a flower only as
A small, innocent, fragile thing
To wither in my hand
Beauty that so quickly fades
I hear the sound of the waves
As the longing in my heart
The search for distant shores
Over an endless, eternal sea
I look at the great blue sky
Knowing it will turn black
Like a stifling canopy over me
Always looming like my doom
I cannot see the flaming sun
As more than a harsh light
That forebodes another dreaded day
And reveals the darkness in my heart
I listen to the falling rain
Like my own tears flowing
Drowning me in my cries
I wade through the ruins of my life