Where Once I Stood

This infection eats away the last remaining pieces of this shattered heart.

For me to be the one who cares when no one else is there.

That no matter how hard I try this angel will not die.

When all I want is this darkness to consume me fully.

To make me, break me, erase me, and recreate me.

When all feelings I have left are just haunting memories of what I could once feel.

Before the pain killed me and the hate invaded my heart turning it to ice.

Where now the only thing I am afraid of is that I no longer know the feeling of fear.

I long for the pain from the past to remind me that I am still a living creature.

For pain seems impossible now,

As it is cast into an empty nothingness where a man's heart was once held.

So I walk lifeless through a world of bitterness where so many eyes are still closed.

And the only desire that burns fire in my soul is to see everyone open their eyes.

For truth has been conflicted into fiction and left way for an undeniable doomsday.

Where the innocent die in the wake of a never ending lie.

Force fed this deception through a book of lies and battle cries.

I will stand and do what I must even if there is not a single soul to trust.

If there is nothing left inside of me for any one else to see, then that is all I will be.

But I will not move, I will not budge, I will not fall from where I stand.

No matter what pushes me, no matter what consumes me, no matter what I no longer feel.

I will live to look through these eyes and into the eyes of another.

Even if this feeling comes back and the pain returns to finally kill me.

This false reality placed before us I will not allow it to win.

With time all will be revealed in the end.

Where so many wish to wake up, I wish only to go back to sleep.