Through tired eyes, these years take yours and mine As all my wasted time birthed a war inside Destroy the lines, leave no place to hide Cross out the days Dissolving into memories To race against unhappiness This isolation turning over in my heart It's only blindness that keeps us apart and alone Sadness waits in the shell of our futures To move inside the end Through dust and dirt, I've held my breath Carried in a current In my own head Cursed by the shades that have promised unrest As my hands reach for all that is left Swallowed in the mouth of the sun And held captive by absence Fevered in the silence that grows underground As waters rose and left me to drown Withering; a seemless decent Held captive by absence