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  Depression lives and rules each day

  How much longer will it last

  I do not know, I just can't say

  Is this present, future or the past?

  The days blend one into the next

  Stretching on forever, they never end

  This sadness will never, ever pass

  It's wounds and scars I just can't tend

  It's feeling too much, too deeply

  Or not feeling any thing at all

  Ever down, and down so steeply

  Stop! Let it end! I cry and I call

  The sounds of my yell echo off the walls

  But the days are heedless of my cry

  They ignore me and taunt me to no end

  And leave me forever wondering why

  By the movement of the sun in the sky

  Do I count the passing of each day

  But when it's ended do I know the difference?

  Not on my life, no how, no way

  The light has passed, this day is ended

  And so as this day draws to a close

  As the sun settles deep into the earth

  Do I steel myself for another of those

  Tomorrow will be today as today passes away

  To become yesterday as it does always

  But today will remain ever the same

  In an endless string of unbroken days

  Tonight May God Grant Me Some Sleep

  Need to talk, dunno what to say

  It's been a crazy sort of day

  Not a wink of sleep last night

  Nor today to make it right

  In circles do my thoughts spin

  Oh what sad shape I am in

  Mouth wants to run a mile a minute

  But there's just no sense in it

  Through the roof is my energy level

  It seems to be God's own Devil

  Drinking beer to try and kill it

  But my hands shake so that I spill it

  Tonight may God grant me some sleep

  And my soul in His hands may He keep

  I pray He blesses all of you too

  With peace with the morning dew

  Treasured Days

  Some days are simply treasures

  Full of love and life's pleasures

  Sunlight and warmth fill the sky

  Loved ones bring tears to the eye

  In contrast to the long dark night

  Fires of hell, a despairing blight

  Magical is the return of the light

  To find love and life shining bright

  Regardless how rare the bright times

  Of life and hope they're ringing chimes

  Empowering me to keep marching on

  Until next time all light is gone

  Truthful Honesty At Least In Part

  Skin caressed by a gentle breeze

  Soul bathed in warm sunshine

  A pure miracle, my mind at ease

  Drifting, floating, outside of time

  A most precious life began today

  So important to most dear friend

  May he be the light to show the way

  That proves life's worth to defend

  God grant peace to all my friends

  Past, present and any yet to be

  Never forget one beyond life's ends

  Happiness ever be what they see

  It's always been them that I failed

  With wife, kids and grands there too

  Never deserving the love they hailed

  Or the pain I force them to accrue

  If only I could do it all one more time

  Never would I allow one heart to care

  Not even once permit myself to slime

  The beautiful hearts that once did dare

  Wander The Silvery Magical Ethereal Way

  Wander the silvery magical ethereal way

  Up an down, in and out, round and round

  Passing beauteous mysteries and phantasms

  All the wondrous mysteries of life abound

  Here a tender mother suckling newborn life

  There a toddler surrounded by all things new

  Young children's first steps towards their wings

  Giddy teenagers exploring first love's debut

  New adults embattled struggle to find their place

  Young parents challenged to do their very best

  At best dimly aware that they build the future

  As years pass and progeny stray from the nest

  Into the gentle and golden age of seniority

  Where experience born wisdom at last if found

  Earned with deep scars and aches and pains

  With leisure to enjoy the life that abounds

  And when at last the path leaves this plane

  Who is to say that it is that is the end

  Amid the unknown wonders of this universe

  Can it not be only the start has been penned?

  Weeping Heavens - A Quinzane

  Leaden gray skies dropping tears

  Who are the heavens

  Weeping for?

  When Evil Beastie's Head First Reared

  One pill, two pill, three pill, four

  Never see sanity, never, no more

  Slingshot propels me to outer space

  Among humanity there's simply no place

  A Saturn V lights off under my ass

  Beyond go I will never again pass

  Damn it all there exists no solution

  To the voices that are mind's pollution

  Tears they kill me, there's no reason

  Even worse dark comes with the season

  Crumbling, dissolving soon nothing left

  My heart and soul are of life bereft

  Reality last night with madness imbued

  On and on destruction was rainbow hued

  Sanity, stability long ago disappeared

  When evil beastie's head first reared

  When My Hearts Stops It's Beating At Last

  I sit and watch and I wait

  For it to stop before it's too late

  It's back and seems it's here to stay

  No matter what I do it won't go away

  It draws me down into that dark hole

  It's my life and dreams that it stole

  Pervasive darkness is all around

  Not a spark of light to be found

  The chill black that of the grave

  Me no one will never, ever save

  The hole is so deep I can't climb out

  And no one can hear me when I shout

  There is no bottom and so I free fall

  The walls echoing with my sharp call

  Help me please is my pointed plea

  It tears the heart right out of me

  There's no one to hear, no one to listen

  As hot, burning tears on my cheeks glisten

  It's light at last from the fires of hell

  A welcome sight though my soul I will sell

  A welcome reprieve is hell's searing heat

  It seers my soul and stops my heart beat

  And when my heart stops it's beating at last

  I will have found peace, surcease at the last

  Where Have You Gone

  Where have you gone

  I really need to know

  I keep waiting and hoping

  For you to show

  When I look in the mirror

  I see you in there

  But when I search inside

  I find you nowhere

  All that I find

  Inside of me now

  Is an evil darkness

  That hides you somehow

  So I ask the darkness,

  No, I beg it to give

  You back to me now

  I want you to live

  It answers with thoughts

  That belong to a stranger

  The emotions that come

  Are even more of a danger

  So
come back to me now

  I cry out to you

  For if you're gone forever

  Then I've lost me too.

  Where Once Upon A Morn So Dreary

  Where once upon a morn so dreary

  I woke miserable in mood so weary

  And moped about in attitude foul

  Returning hugs with a nasty scowl

  The sun break through and did shine

  Upon that ugly countenance of mine

  Lo and behold a bright smile birthed

  Then my better joyful self unearthed

  Whispers Of Madness

  the world goes up and down, all around

  left and right, inside, outside, never found

  wrung out like a rag til every drop hits the ground

  a river of scarlet screaming madness piercing sound

  in screaming silence the echoes endlessly pound

  tormented souls, tortured hearts in isolation bound

  in despair and loneliness the last hope is drowned

  lost lives never lived in mere existence crowned

  Who Am I

  Who am I, I want to know

  If you know me tell me so

  In the mirror that's not me

  Dead, empty eyes all I see

  Wild, mad thoughts in my mind

  In them me I just do not find

  An alien heart beats in my chest

  Just not me is my best guess

  Tell me please what you know of me

  There has to be more than I see

  Where There Once Was Dark

  Yesterday all was dark and gloomy

  My life's outlook was all dreary

  My heart was broken, my soul tattered

  Couldn't see, my eyes were all teary

  My world was ending bit by bit

  The pain - it was indescribable

  Loneliness was tearing me in two

  The despair was insurmountable

  I stood in the pit and all was black

  I never thought I'd climb out of it

  I simply could not see any way out

  I was dying inside, bit by bit

  Then along came a miracle

  And though for you it be small

  It changed things for me

  Changed them once and for all

  And today where there once was dark

  Now I can see naught but the light

  My world has changed for the better

  It is truly a most wonderful sight

  Where pain once wracked my soul

  Where yesterday my heart was broken

  Now I sing songs of joy and love

  For at last my heart has spoken

  It tells me tales of wonders great

  Of joy and peace and wondrous love

  Tales to rival those told in the Bible

  Tales told Of God's own heaven above

  My heart and soul both leap and bound

  Through fields of the most verdant green

  Under a sun made of glowing gold

  It's the grandest thing I've ever seen

  And though I know not what tomorrow brings

  Darkness and despair or joy and light

  Right here and now, for this wonderful day

  I will bask in the joy of all that's right

  Who Am I? Where Have I Gone?

  Who am I? Where have I gone?

  I remember me, the one I loved

  A person who was always strong

  Now I'm weak and always sad

  Seems I've thrown away

  The happy life that I had

  Who's this stranger sitting here?

  Filled with pain so fierce

  And the stasis of fear

  Who am I? Where have I gone?

  I'm nowhere to be found

  I've been gone so long

  The mirror shows a stranger's face

  One I don't recognize

  Even with God's good grace

  It's an image I've grown to hate

  But I'm stuck with it now

  Seems like that is my fate

  Who am I? Where have I gone?

  I listen intently

  But no one's singing my song

  I used to be strong, full of pride

  Now I retreat to my room

  Where I do nothing but hide

  By a code of honor I used to live

  Now self respect leaks away

  As if through a sieve

  Who am I? Where have I gone?

  I've looked deep inside

  What I found is just wrong

  I had an intellect sharp and bright

  Now my thoughts are dulled

  By the alcohol's bite

  I was full of love for the world around

  Now I'm just empty inside,

  No heart to be found

  Who am I? Where have I gone?

  Wired

  Wired. Twisting and turning

  Running hot. All out burning

  Heart racing, pulse pounding

  Full ahead with no sounding

  Spinning round, all around

  No landing to be found

  CRACK! Thoughts flash through my mind

  No connection in me do they find

  Jagged bolts of lightning flash

  Thunderous peals of sound crash

  Muscles jumping as nerves thrum

  Energy singing a sonorous hum

  Out of control, way over the top

  When will it ever, ever stop

  Yeah....

  What to do when you cannot live and cannot die?

  When every second of every day is naught but a lie?

  Why condemned to go on dying in a hell ever lasting?

  Many masks to fit in yet never a role to be was casting

  You Don't Know...

  You don't know what it's like to be empty inside

  To be breathing and moving but hollow inside

  You don't know the sound of your thoughts echoing in your head

  Nor do you know what it's like to not be able to get out of bed

  You don't know how the darkness of forever waits for you

  How it's eager to suck the light and the life too

  You don't know the insanity made of all the pain

  That gnaws at your insides time and again

  You don't know the loneliness of life

  The gratefulness even for some strife

  You don't know the longing for human contact

  When you feel that you're in life's last act

  You don't know how wonderful a kind word can be

  Until you're lost in the dark, the light you can't see

  You don't how valuable is the presence of a friend

  Until you're hollow inside and just want it to end

  You don't know how important are the sounds of a voice

  Until you're at your wit's end and left with no choice

  You don't know the joy of a sunrise on a crisp cool morn

  Until you've seen the darkness of hell in which you were born

  Or the beauty of birds' songs ringing out like the tones of a bell

  Until you've heard you own sobs echoing like the chant of a spell

  You don't know regret if you never tried to atone

  You don't know peace until you've felt pain

  You don't know solitude until you've been alone

  You don't know sanity until you've been insane

  You don't know.... until you do

  You Prayed For Help

  You prayed for help

  And so to you I came

  To lend you strength

  To withstand the pain

  You just could not see

  Lost in deepest despair

  It was too difficult

  To accept I did care

  Those pills were never

  Your life meant to end

  To answer your prayers

  Is why me God did send

 
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