Silent Descent

Living In False Eternity

Silent Descent


I walk through my valley in ignorance, 
The path I walk ever changing its direction, 
From light to dark, from deep to heart; 
I looked forward. Everything swirls and blurs, 
A perfect blend between light and dark. 
I see clearly up to one step forward, 
And take paths winding. 

Thoughts compelling me to move forward; I look back, 
I see clearer for miles, but I've hardly moved. 
Yet in reality I'm pushed towards the unknown, 
Ghost of paths I should've taken. 
I spy with my little eye something beginning with death. 

Descending into silence, 
The obsession is in us all. 
You are the drug that inhales me, 
Yet I live to watch you fall. 

I walk forward now in the path of regret, 
Seeing mirrors surrounding facing back. 
Sun gleams on what should've been. 
Flowers of past, withered and trampled upon; 
My eyes comforted by something new, 
A rose, the deepest red you could see or feel 
I wonder how to approach. 

Hundreds of paths of purity gleam in front of me, 
I decipher whether to approach the idyllic. 
As I walk the path turns brown, nothing seen before, 
I set my hand upon the flower; 
It changes colour making me feel like God. 

My hands are bound in red 
My hands are bound in red 
All I see is green 

I open my arms and it consumes me, 
A new power rushes through my veins. 
The strength in my chest has gone, 
But everywhere else thrives.