A crowded place Faces race around me They all are my friends Still I know no one I'm in seclusion A realm of pain a cease of life I'm feeling helpless to fight A confined touch behind the mask A picture painted gray and black We're on our own Distance grows between us I disappear Embraced by fear In isolation After each word that I hear The silence seems to grow After a faint light shines through A face still won't show An image of what once was Drifts further each day Time washes the color away Memory settles in gray I lay awake for the first time A heavy mist surrounds me A brief clarity that's slipping away As I feel the truth pierce through me I seek your hand a distant flame A path for me to follow A cry for help unable to Cut through the dense silence