This darkness that dwells deep down
This loss of innocence that I no longer feel
This bitterness and rage, stuck inside my cage
This thing that I no longer know…myself…

I look in the nooks and crannies only to come away confused
and all this doubt and pain, I feel like I’ve been infused…
I see the spark in their smiles, but I know that loss just waits
while with the powers that be, my soul just negotiates

I once herd that still waters run deep
and I’ve found that my only friend is sleep..

Slipping and falling down this tunnel of slumber
and as the nights go on I just seem to get dumber
I lose contact with the loved ones I once embraced
and forget all those tragedy’s that I once faced.
I speak less now than I ever did
and forget the love I knew as a kid.
I miss the times that I once embraced
and the lines of fate that I once traced.
Now it’s just a broken pencil and tear stained pad
and a lifelong of tragedy’s that had driven me mad.
Insanity dwelling inside this murky mind
seeming like on the hands of fate, I’ve been unkind.

12/15/2002

Author's Note: Just an ode to the true love of my life... Slumber and my dreams...

Posted on 04/14/2003
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