From Broken Vessels

Unto this world I was born

(Innocence scorned)

Oaths were broken and pain bestowed

Innocence mourned

Trust betrayed, smiles were faked

Desire turned hate

Faces of loved ones (loved ones) are long decayed

Alone in this world, alone and so cold

Shiver in rain, my story unfolds

A broken vessel, endless pieces of me

Friends are now foes

Those who betray love's labours lost

A true passion play

Forked tongues drip with lies

Serpents hold me down, I cannot fly

The dark within my eyes

"I hate this place

This zoo, this prison, this reality,

whatever you want to call it..."

Saint I'm not

Pure in mind and thought

Masks I wear

In this stage we share

Will we ever bare

these fears and hopes within one and all?

"And thus I clothe my naked villainy

with old odd ends stolen forth from holy writ,

and seem a saint when most I play the devil."

Cracks they show

in the mirrors of my soul

When I break,

why do they all forsake?

Is life but a mistake?

Why do they smile when I fall apart?

Go! Pick yourself up

You are the end, now the chapter is done

Cry as you might to the gods you adore

They hear you not, as they never before