#streden

Fading away... I begin to notice The meaning Of me being here

I whisper, "I'm sorry" Just a little more A hand I reached out Without even knowing Cast a shadow And somehow With a puzzled look You look at me Because I didn't understand

I lived without knowing Shut away inside myself In my everyday life You kept adding Things I wanted to know

Holding tight to your heartbeat The seconds keep ticking All the way to the end I feel like I could Fall asleep happy Quietly Wearing away Through all the days that piled up What I found precious Is here in my hands

A hand I reached out Touched warmth That wasn't sunlight You look at me Eyes catching the light Because I didn't understand

I lived without knowing Now I feel lonely For the days that passed Something I couldn't before The warmth I felt For the first time I don't want to let it go So I hold on tight That's okay... right?

With a simple beauty I fill my stomach No interest in anything else

A profile like porcelain So I don't break it Your arrogant heart I will offer this body until I devour it whole

Entangling desires To a weak, eroding heart The power you crave and its price Past and future are chains that bind your wishes

To live for the now, true to instinct That is the most correct way to be Take and be taken, such is the way of man I will give you the power you desire, so just one bite of the ripened fruit And the entire world is yours Savor it, Bites

Just as you please, come on, Bites Resisting the desire is utterly futile The more you wish for freedom The more the impulse crawls up your spine This Flow repeating since the dawn of time Flow Flow

Celebrate this life Even if you tame it (follow your heart.) An unfilled void Fill it with obsession bite the dust

Punished descendants Reach out their hands A license to paradise A self-satisfying prayer Beauty is the price (funny)

Acting like you have no need for affection (B, I, T, E, Bites) Dance until the poison tears you apart Without waiting for the day of harvest, Feels like I might bite into it this very moment (Drop) Bites

No matter how many times I wipe away my tears Petals fall once more Drifting softly down Ephemeral hopes-- Let me entrust this wish Even if the stars themselves grow dim

Let me see eyes That still hold their light These hands, having lost so much, are cold Still, the journey will not pause Memories spill Through the gaps of my fingers

Words of a vow, fragile as an illusion Though I know this fate I reach out my hand Toward a distant light Wavering in the wind

Nights clinging to dull gray As unanswered questions Knowing what truly mattered Held so it won't scar Like misting rain, falling gently I smiled quietly And waited for morning Sleeping at the bottom of the lake An unspoken monologue

So that I might find a way back I endure the falling rain The true form of love-- Whatever may be hidden there So I can forgive it As for the truth-- I will not cling to all of it I will sleep beside beauty as it fades