Alone. That's all I want to be Except it's not. I've just learned to make the best of what I got- Which is nothing. I see the empty promises you make The obligatory smile The curt nod. But in the end I'm not part of your tribe- Just an outsider looking inside. I'm that...

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The only time we had Was the time we stole In between the monotony of the day. Now you are on a new path I am left behind-forgotten aftermath While you live a new life of exciting adventure.

You were supposed to be my rockAnchoring me against the storm Instead you became a waveWashing me up on the shore. The hollowness of your promises Rings in my earsThe heaviness of your liesCrushes me into the dirt. All that time wastedBut to...

Sadness permeates my bones For I am truly alone. Did you ever love me Or was it an alternative reality? Memories spin and twist Was our whole affair kismet? Or were you simply a dream I no longer have? I wonder how far I could have gone If I...

Another week Come and gone Another reminder That I am alone Funny how they need you When their world is falling apart Funny how they forget you When it is not Pledges of loyalty Run cold most days Time marches on But still they never stay A lifetime of forever Erased in...

I curse the day I met you I am haunted by your lies You left me with a hollowness That eats away at my insides How quick you are to judge Those that forgot you But I wish you could see You are doing it too Fealty...

This old soul Rattles around inside my bones Full of wisdom of its own The willows weep As the sky cries Begging me to listen To the restless soul residing in my bones Am I invisible To everyone Or just used to the loneliness That this old soul has...

How do you deal with goodbye How do you live with never again How do I get through The day without you? This surrealistic nightmare Needs to end now Because I cannot pretend To never have called you friend Ripped from my hands Like paper in the wind And...

Autonocron Working tirelessly in the machine Of your oppressive reality Do not shine Your light in here Do not breathe A sigh of relief For at the end of the day there is none Be a machine Be unseen Do not feel Do not delay If your neighbor falls Simply look the...