Won't let fatigue hold me back
Beckoned by the void
It pleads for me to quench its thirst
For all that it's destroyed

In times like this
I often wonder what the future holds
What fate has for me in its coffers
What existence has to offer

So much energy to exhaust
With whom do I confide?
The shadows my only companion
Only from myself can I hide

When one learns to embrace pain
the nature of reality is exposed
we're not here for pleasure
but to overcome our foes

i miss when things were simple
all that mattered was our bliss
when all would melt away
at the touch of a kiss

now everything is hazy
sweet truth is masked and shackled
all my thoughts dictated
by the howl of the jackel

do i still have it in me?
inky blackness or a flicker?
unable to see straight
not from a drop of liquor

casualties of belief
tainted thoughts provide no relief
tryin to turn over a new leaf but held back by grief