Shattered Like Glass

Hanging from a noose

Wrapped tightly around my neck

The sentence passed in haste

The verdict incorrect

Hangman ties the blindfold

Life flashes before my eyes

I speak my last words

Why must I die?

Trapped here in this bedroom

As the cancer eats away at me

Each and every day, I am withering away

Undergoing chemotherapy

Disease consumes my body

The cure consumes my mind

Put me out of my misery

Just let me die

Screams of the dying

The silence of the dead

You won't last

Shattered like glass

Solo

Screams of the dying

The silence of the dead

Nothing lasts

Shattered like glass

Thrown through the front window

A thousand sudden lacerations

Injured and disfigured

Life becomes damnation

Cornered like an animal

I struggle to break free

Cannot face the horror

Of my own mortality

We are falling into early graves

Help me, I am dying

And I cannot see the light

Icy hands of death reach out

And pull me into the night

Nothing ever lasts

You won't last

The long silence begins

You've been shattered