Forever Gone

everything fades,

everything turns to dust,

drifting by like floating leaves

on a flowing mountain stream,

never to return,

never to be seen

again;

this house is not a home,

this place is not a destination,

this time is not an answer;

words fall like rain,

memories slip from their solid grasp,

breathing does not come easy

as you desperately seek just

one more dying gasp;

if you listen

you can hear the wood cracking

before the final collapse,

dark, dead-end streets

paved with suffering and pain

cry out for new victims,

seeking fresh, clean sacrifices;

I have always been there,

making everything right,

but now I stand by and watch

as their lives are destroyed

forever;

this is what I do,

it is who I am,

it is all there is;

my dreams are always chaos,

lying somewhere in the shadows,

hopelessly lost,

forever gone.

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