Shadows before dawn.

The memories keep reaching out...

Trying to lead me astray.

I have to retain my resolve.

Stifling tears, I have to just push them away...

Once upon a time

You were my everything...

My peace and solace

Only you could bring...

You would bring me paradise.

When you looked me in my eyes...

I had to roll a pair of dice

Just to escape there with my life...

The memories keep reaching out...

They love me more than she did.

The silence that lingers beseeches the doubts

It keeps haunting me, left undefeated.

Once upon a time

I would have died right next to you...

I would have died happily serving you selflessly 

Effortless, nothing I wouldn't just do...

I was brought to my knees

Doing all that you'd please

Living soullessly

Chipping away what was me...

The memories keep reaching out...

Far more than her words ever could.

I buried the worst of us under that last sheet of paper.

Journaled it into the wood.