In retrospect They shouldn’t’ve tried to connect With them, now they’re tryna collect Their thoughts and tryna correct Their faults, hope it ain’t too late For that, weren’t tryna neglect Themselves and create a wreck Of them, to the point they reject Their being in every aspect Seeing their every regret And all the things they infect They can try, but can never forget The past, but they can forgive The present and try to accept The future without tryna predict Their course in its full effect Oh, life ain’t fair, so farewell They fear they're lost in endless cycles of inner warfare Hell, life’s unfair, so farewell They feel like drowning in a well till they gasp for air Yeah, life ain’t fair, so farewell They fear they're lost in endless cycles of inner warfare Hell, life’s unfair, so farewell They feel like drowning in a well till they gasp for air How come is it they have to fit in every mold and column They don’t give a single fuck ‘bout blending in amongst them Numb to the bone, down to every single atom From ashes to ashes is a saying they have welcomed More clashes and crashes, self-annihilation Compassion’s gone, rationed, from fear they have fallen Their own inaction dictates each and every of their action Deflection’s the focus of the path they have chosen No they cannot fathom the phantom The shell of what they have become Overthinking’s vain claims Ockham Keep on moving like the seasons Just like leaves fall in the autumn Like bees bear the flower’s pollen And in the spring the trees blossom Damn this poem is pretty solemn

Like snow still on a branch At rest, no disturbance They’re waiting for the avalanche To wash away this trance Bracing for the impact Feelin’ wind and start to panic Hearin’ from afar the rumble At their core they start to tremble At their knees they’re brought to crumble On their hands they feel the rubble Try to see, their vision’s troubled Take a step, their feet they stumble Feelin’ sand sinkin’ through their palms And see the ground beneath turn to stones Sharp little rocks cuttin’ through their bones Now, this is it, finally feel the calm There's nowhere to go on No they don’t belong On and on they’ve longed For air in their lungs They were born in the thorns of a flower that never blossomed In the eye of a storm where the calm can’t be found Where the wave hits the stone with such force it gets torn And the echoes that form signify what they yearn for The day they were sworn to protect all from harm as they laid down their arms But the voice they called would not respond Their scorn for life had grown From this point on the warmth of the cold filled their lungs Although this too shall pass, it wasn’t meant to last Watching life slip by like sand through an hourglass Seconds turn to days, before you know it’s your last Hence no matter how it’s green, you should take care of your grass So they’re still dreamin’ of a place where they feel alright Longin’ for a world where the sun’s so bright Somewhere their chest doesn’t feel so tight No all they really fuckin’ need’s a little peace and quiet They looked for way too long But there's nowhere to go on No they don’t belong On and on they’ve longed For somewhere to call home While the flame within is quickly fadin’, their rope’s runnin’ thin The earth below keeps movin’, got them fallin’ out of their skin There’s just so many fuckin’ things they’ll never understand The thought never crossed their mind that they’d get betrayed by their own kin Now they’re tryna light their torch just to see what’s ahead But the fire’s got them melting like a god damn snowman Seein’ this world as-is wasn’t part of the plan Press escape and then quit, no saving from this land Now how did it come to this, living’s a catalyst For their every struggles and everyday cataclysms They feel like a god damn mess, everything feels like a test They just wanna go somewhere where time stops, somewhere they can decompress Movin’ in a tiny little house on the side of the forest They’d work hard all day, and at night they would rest Far, far, far away, far away from this stress Nobody, no noise, no nothin’ but bliss

Alienated From a world that’s full of hatred The air is tainted With words that cut, serrated They awaited For the warmth of something sacred The river’s been poisoned The pathway back has faded, yet Home is where the heart is But the frame’s in pieces In pieces Their soul shall not know rest Nor what peace is Peace is Open their ears but never seize What the plea says The plea says Glance at this mess Nothing but bits and pieces Pieces Bits and pieces Nothing but bits and pieces Pieces

A noise echoes in the halls and the rats scatter A poisonous odor’s led them through this shelter For years kept unnoticed, for years were glossed over Unturned, these remains must be revealed this hour In their hands a relic all covered in tatters In this sanctum all of the pieces are gathered Artifact sacred rests atop an altar Architects of their own demise hereafter Buried deep down dwells the terror of failure Reinstate the order by breaking the pattern Reunite all of the fragments they shattered Might one piece have been lost, yet one found another Why go back Go back Now? They said go back Go back? No Oh they said go back Go back Now The voices said go back Go back? How? Came many stray travelers with no sense of purpose Muddied the waters, left no trace of progress Unfaithful disciples act but on self-interest Though starved peasants ingest the mere food they harvest Shall be rebuilt what befell them, from ashes This object of promise, once whole, now in pieces Altered the process, thus altered the beast Within themselves, a rest could be unfound for ages Each of their actions etched on a new canvas A chance to redemption, a chance to success Shall this come, they would press for their former selves To be reborn anew, thus attaining earned solace Why would they go back Go back Now? Oh they can’t go back Go back No In fact they know that Know that Now No please don’t go back Hold that Vow