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wayoutwalt
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0 posted 2001-11-11 02:41 AM



Judgment is coming, soon all will face it
Here is a darkness why not embrace it
The pain is one thing I’ll never know
Into the darkness where doomed to go
What does it matter if I cannot feel
Into the darkness nothing is real

Excessive darkness will have its tolls
On all the shameful, corrupted souls
A fire’s last ember is hard to defend
Life is so fragile not easy to end
Maybe it's better for me anyway
I’ll long for darkness and not its day

I’m turning the trip of insanity
It makes its stops but not for me
Into a darkness that digs my grave
Where ending days meet a madman’s rave
Will I feel better not having a name?
Would I feel better if nothingness came?

While I’m still living they'll cut me apart
Into the darkness that’s running my heart
Suspicion bores deep into my soul
Darkness infests and fills up the hole
If the throbbing can be swept away
I’ll long for darkness and not its day

My mind has broken through spraying mist
Can I just say that I even exist
An apparition abruptly appears
But I can’t see through bittersweet tears
Her feral caged stare makes me realize
Mirror reflections are caught in her eyes

Since I know her not, can I feel her love?
In her face of lies that I’m thinking of
The woman drifts on but was she there
Too much of a dream can cause nightmares
I hear a voice say, "I always loved you"
Do memories prove experience true?

How can I know that I'm losing my mind?
Is the answer e’en possible to find?
Confusion forces madness upon men
Can I go back where I've never been?
I've lost hold of my last waning candle
Here it is gone for waxed covered handle

Into the darkness, look, it surrounds me
But, alas, this time the pain has found me
There's a bending trail that leads to the night
I knew for some time there'd be no bright light

A twisted tree stands in paradise grown
My eyes will tell me what's not to be known
Those barren branches seem productive
Simplest solutions are so seductive
A lonely test’ment to what goes wrong
When dying spirits are standing too long

I question the times I have forgotten
And as the tree's fruit, inside I’m rotten
Then all’s so clear the answers revealed
What I’ve held near my shattering shield
Full of rat poison I know I must die
So much was easy when I chose the lie

Standing before me a Silhouette Shade
Through depths of darkness I’ll watch it wade
And never, I know, has such beauty flowed
With an air of grace down a damned filled road
I find that my will is forced to follow
Into the darkness the path is swallowed
But then born again, I can see the shade
No longer alone and ever afraid

So many places, I am led through
Familiar faces that I once knew
Their mouths gape open and spilling one word
Into the darkness their voices unheard
My heart turns cold and I cannot move
Demand that purpose be quickly proved
The supernat’ral need not persuade
Into the darkness I follow the shade

Given a score and no one else around
Silence will be an unsettling sound
Bloody wars clashed, I never will fight
Many of wrongs not able to right
A dirty child stops, I can see it cry
I hate to pass it but my soul will die
Visions of evil that humans have made
I’d never believe it, not for the shade

Seasons are changing but it’s always cold
Time is here passing I’m growing so old
Like a lost black sheep bumping the shade
I knew come a day even it would fade
In despair, the end, I grab for its hand
My paws are useless but digging in sand
At once I'm human, death, and its charms
Into the darkness, I’m folding my arms

End

[This message has been edited by wayoutwalt (edited 11-12-2001).]

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Sunshine
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1 posted 2001-11-11 07:36 AM



Good work on the revamp, much easier for me to rebump...

angelswing
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2 posted 2001-11-12 12:15 PM


Great re-vamp . Loved it; You've written it with so much feeling .
L.of.L. Tom .

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cruz
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3 posted 2001-11-12 01:05 PM


ah yeah, revamped an awesome one... chek  your yahoo
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