"Selfish Request"

Seconds merge into moments as the silence draws together your life

Because everything before these last few days seems but a memory

It wasn't long ago you were beating down your own path of life

Step after step you were building into the future

But the longing truth was something that could not hide from you

Footsteps now falter and slip into sorrow

Days gone by do nothing to ease or erase the pain

And the continuation of the heartache to come

Fragments of yesterday are now to hard to recall

Your stuck here, in this life draining seconds

As the once bright eyes of love grow cold

All colourful happiness is tainted in shades of black

Suffocating the warmth within your heart

You feel the sharp stab of life that comes with the realization made

There is no going back

All that there is left now is a stranger that you use to know

The tension of the atmosphere wants to make you run away from it all

Because you won't just simply surrender

You have to forcibly hold yourself back against your will

Because it takes one hell of a man to be a better man

Than no man at all

And if you don't draw the line, then there won't be one for everyone else to cross

Maybe some day, mixed within all of the random possibilities

You will understand

But right now...

At this second, and many yet to come...

You don't...

All you want to know for your well being

Is the one word that forms the never-ending haunting question...

Why?

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