- Alone With Our Failures
Faceless summer night.
I call out from the shadows.
Empty now, the barren streets summon scenes.
Here a blackened future lies.
Condemn this shallow world to wallow in its sadness.
Broken now, the city bleeds a noxious blood and slowly dies.
I pretend that I am more.
A rotten pretense to the chains I wear.
- Condemned As Prey
Sorrow chokes the air and fills the lungs with such noxious fumes.
"Breath deep," she says, "For I am forever throughout this world."
She is the creeping shadow cast by every winter's moon.
Frigid darkness to chill the fragile skin of man, condemned as prey to her unyielding hunger.
The world is cleansed by Sorrow's touch.
Devoured, flesh. Devoured, bone.
Condemned as prey.
All hope dismissed as fallacy, a truth known beyond words.
- Full Circle
some dreams are never too far away /
they dance just on the edge of daylight /
etched into your eyes, ghost movement in the peripheral /
some thoughts are never too far away /
they sit behind the daylight like shadows /
tattooed on your skin, fingerprints of who you'll be tomorrow /
(oh) vicious engineer /
if i believed, your name would be a curse /
- I See No Civilization
Please grant me this one wish: This skin will never burn.
Let the bones collapse like every body must but let the form escape the ravage that come.
A guarantee of every interaction.
Necessity, perhaps, of this human complication.
This world breed pain and suffering.
I fear this dedication.
Await the day my name is changed to meaningless distraction.
Perhaps we've seen too much.
- Longing Is All That Will Remain
Let those who wake despair upon the night.
For through it all they loved has turned to gray.
Like the ever-fading memories of all we hoped be.
In an instant lost to waters deep forever more to keep.
This loss pervades the spirit.
A spectre of doubt in every breath.
A second from failure.
A lifetime of doubt.
- Memento Mori
Every yearning glance.
Every tender touch.
Every calm exchange.
Every hopeful plan.
Every peaceful day.
Every joyful yell.
Every distant hill.
Every faithful friend.