This journal is but a convergence of stories I long to forget.
Why must I bear this bitter role?
So cursed, so lost, so full of pain,
Too tired to try, yet bound by chains.
Too scared to leave, too weak to stay,
No light to guide me on my way.
Who'll show the path, extend a hand,
To one too wretched still to stand?
Why must I bear this bitter role?
So cursed, so lost, so full of pain,
Too tired to try, yet bound by chains.
Too scared to leave, too weak to stay,
No light to guide me on my way.
Who'll show the path, extend a hand,
To one too wretched still to stand?
haunted by the past I ache to know.
Oh, how I was in days gone by—
so far from the one beneath this sky.
haunted by the past I ache to know.
Oh, how I was in days gone by—
so far from the one beneath this sky.
it held only the salt of the sea.
Where the weary sank without escape,
no light — not even a flicker — ever came to be.
it held only the salt of the sea.
Where the weary sank without escape,
no light — not even a flicker — ever came to be.
so does my breath—
what remains in me is only silence
echoing through an empty shell.
so does my breath—
what remains in me is only silence
echoing through an empty shell.