My World

The clouds turn black
In my world
The sun chokes on the dust
The edges of the earth begin to rust
And I collapse
Hitting the dampened soil in relapse

My sweet breath is stolen from my lungs
My lips part, screaming for air
But the sky is bare-- here in my world
My eyes are blank, they stare
My heart is eroded
My soul is a shell

The love has exploded
Leaving in that place a fire, smoldering ashes
Ashes that flourish upon us all
Like burning snow
No where to go-- in my world
To the ground, where we fall

My world
No one dares to face this place
But my addiction screams for me to go
I have to leave reality
To embrace the drug
My medication, a demon

I shake and shiver but I feel all is well
Cowering inside this world
My world
That is a hell
Though I’m told
That I am rooted where I fell

The trees scream at us as we
Shiver through the dust but we
Cannot hide our silence
The monsters in my world have no patience
They are angered at our presence
A hatred. A gemstone essence


We try to whisper behind our sin
But inside we
Know we cannot win
My world is a king full of pride and greed
A rotten seed
He laughs at my pain and my deep dark sin

They point fingers and whisper
In my world they
Tear me apart with words that, truly
Could never be a lie
So unruly
With each curse I die

It rains here upon my
Dreaded, bleeding black sky
Tickling the trees with the secrets, whispers
As they press the branches to their lips
They lie-- in my world
But they laugh

You ask me
Is it possible to leave
This place you so dearly grieve?
My grave resides here, is my answer
Though in death, in my world
I cannot deny

That I am guilty and I
Deserve this world that envelops me
I am a sinner as we all are
A night full of greed, not a single bright star
A sky that bleeds
Exposing us, a door ajar

In my world we cannot heal
It hurts so much, though we cannot feel
We are numb to the core, inside and out
In doubt
We can imagine things are real
When the trees scream

In my eyes, the future here seems bleak
My world is tattered, torn and weak
I cannot speak, not ever, not here
They tainted my skin and made me a fool
A crippled toy, committed to doom
I am only death here

My sky opens up and
My mask turns to dust
I have to breathe
I must
Breathe the poison in my world
But this forest surrounds me, suffocating

My cheek caresses the mildewed ground
I inhale the last drip of oxygen
Here in my world, life seems to have died
Though we all have cried
The only thing this was all along, was a lie

Forever, I am dying