By Your Side

You say my hands are untied
And that it's you that I've denied
I have closed my eyes
I have abandoned your side

I am the one scarred
I am the one who caught your star
Shining from a distance
Because of me the world knows who you are

I am the one that gave expression to your face
I am the one who pulled you out of your forsaken place

A dead flower lay dwelling in an empty bed
It was me who brought you back to life, you blossomed
So you said

You were an incomplete chapter unable to be named
Until I came and laid down the words
And so a novel you became

When you were testing the waters
And couldn't even swim
I carried you through the deep
On my back rested all of your whim

It was all of my strength that you were able to rise
The nerve with all of your pride
King in your eyes
Never acknowledging the Queen by your side

In time a star does fall
And in time a flower will die
In time a novel does end
And in time the waters run dry
It is then when you remember my love
As you glance at your right side

Prey

He is filled with lies
A lion in a kitten's disguise

On concrete he stands
As though a mighty man
But what lies beneath
Is a mound of sand

So you he can deceive
He has put his heart on his sleeve
And so naive, can't recognize his scheme
Just like Eve, the snake you believe

An impregnable beast has become your fall
A corruptible fool is what you are
Prey in his den, into calamity you crawl

But if you examine closely, the foundation is cracked
His identity is exposed, leaving you in control
For you see what he lacks

Therefore his power is scanty
You hold it in your hands
His dignity becomes threatened
He becomes prey in his own den

The Hollow From Within

My emotions have abandoned me

No longer dwelling in my presence

They have denied me their company

Now hollow within, I'm on a search again

To arrest what has escaped

And my affections apprehend

I am empty no more possessing the sensitivity

That once lingered here

You have set your fears in front of my face

But consolation is nowhere near

I am cold and I am weightless

This hollow within has left me shameless

You have died, I shed no tear

You have breath but your presence I have placed in the rear

Where have you gone, where do you reside

Nothing to inhabit my soul

I'm hollow inside

I am alive, where are the signs

You once appealed to my senses

But now they're on the run, not one can I find

When you cry it is I who remains still

When you are happy it is your joy that I kill

I am racing against time to capture the heart

That has gone with the wind

I am struggling to reinstate the passion

That my name comes not to an end

An apathetic reality I know is what you think of me

A silhouette is all that I am

An outline of what should be

Unable to understand clearly the vision that beholds thee

This inevitable truth has significantly been defined

Betrayed by what I owned

I have strategically been maligned

And so it is

The element that once was my enemy

I now aim to defend

I now know it is not that I've chosen to pretend

I am convinced it is the hollow from within