Every Rope A Noose

Every rope a noose

And each knives blade a truth

Each day greyer than before

Unwelcome life long in the tooth

Colors marred and queer

Ambitions disappear

The walls of shame are closing in

You're fading fast

You just can't breathe anymore

Can you feel your skin yet turning cold

The rigor mortis is stiffening

It's a dead life in this cold dead world

So sink those rotten teeth right in let the disease within unfurl

Wrapped in silence bittersweet

A trigger pull salvation complete

Each stifled morn' the last

Coin to ferryman passed

A tasteless tongue wags from your mouth

By plight of life crushed in its grasp

Eyes of blind blink not

Brought forth on earth to rot

Irreparably they've damaged you an empty shell

You just can't be anymore

No one can hear your death knell ringing cold

Embrace your own insignificance

Pale skin feels paper thin

Weathered by erosive days raped of all of its innocence

Unending waves of self disdain

Tormented an existence in vain

That weight which bends our spines

Inherit ancient strife

Struggling to stay alive as we anxiously deflate

Sheer madness fills our veins

Hell beckons with flickering flames

From 'neath headstone with no name

All that's left to be

Is dead and free

Dead and free from this pain

Dead and cold

Frozen stiff