By Next Year This Will All Be Long Gone

A day ahead of now
Well, it’s a different time
A year ahead of now
It’s a lifetime’s achievement

I think of the moments that passed us by
Never took the chance to seize them
Knowing they were out of my grasp

I remember my heart in the layby
Where I left my futile past
You were frozen in time
I cut every tie that bonded us
Severed myself to the bone

The shy smile upon my face
We departed from each other
The sorrow I didn’t feel
The inevitability in your eyes

Is this all for real?
The darkness I try to conceal
A jaded mind in doubt
It’s my heart I didn’t want to reveal

Ghosts

Will I ever get out of this unscathed?
A transparent will yet so illusive
Bent down on hope
This city is cold and thrives on emptiness
A place where you say goodbye

Those words still linger in the back of my mind
To depart, to bid farewell
You could never carry me home
With the weight of the world upon your shoulders

Would you be my eyes?
Would you be my voice?
Would you be my bones?
Could you show me my final resting ground
And carve my spirit in stone?

Burn our remembrance
A tribute to life, our death
As dawn cruelly reflects upon us
A cross to remind you of my history
A child’s bedtime story to foretell the future