Originally written and posted to Facebook 14/February/2020, republished here as Facebook is about to remover the Notes feature. I guess with progress there are always casualties...
Littered across the floor
An endless tangle of lies
Dreams and hopes and memories
Screaming out as they die
Crumbling all around them
All in silent slumber be
The echoes of the children’s laughter
Drowning in misery
Sons and daughters weeping
Crying out in pain
Still their secrets keeping
While they slowly fade away
Help, it was not coming
A complex web of lies
Kept the monsters feeding
Muffling their cries
Pawns in a cruel game of irony
Crippled, battered, torn
The only path they could see
Is one they forged alone
Sons and daughters weeping
Crying out in pain
Still their secrets keeping
While they slowly fade away
A light at the end
It’s time to begin
A new day is dawning
With each breath you’re drawing
You’re healing inside…
Now spread…
your wings…
and fly….
Sons and daughters weeping
Crying out in pain
Still their secrets keeping
While they slowly fade away
Don’t fade away…