Head on paws I lay
Weary with hatred and
My forced wrong-doings
Lush forests ripped to sand
Forced to hold what I should say
My cold mask held in rusty scales
Inescapable terrors in my eyes
Sights and thoughts bewildering
When all that I love finally dies
And my feeling quickly pales
The blind are the ones that guide me
Those who see the light
The self-righteous and proud Pharisees
But when it gets too bright
The ones with unblinking eyes never again will see
Have my memories and my mind
Betrayed me, and simply lied?
A blasphemy to my soul
I only wish that I had cried
And left it all, save hatred, behind
A life, a love, a family
All that which had been ours
Sent asunder, as all are
But now this life constantly sours
All that I am, all that I can be
But what if I choose to peel it away,
This corroded shell I hide within?
Show the tender flesh beneath,
Allow redemption of my sin,
And take a tender hand to bid me stay?
But the only guidance offered me
Is the only way I cannot be
A kind passerby�s mercy
Allows my thoughts to finally flee
A quick flash, thunder, then black I see
Surrounding my love eternally