Shaded Heart

Sown in the shadows of the night;
forged through the fires of the heart;
tested in the thirst of the day;
denied by the whispers of the tongue;
bled by the dagger of truth;
frozen in the depths of love;
guarded by the gates of the soul;
reduced to the corner of my mind.

The daytime high begins to crash
Waves breaking coldly on the shore
The moon casts its deathly shadow
A grim relief of its former self

The smoke consumes the arid sky
And the hours trickle down my face
Distilled by a natural fate
That solidifies a truth well kept

The scornful wind plunders the trees
Explosions litter the atmosphere
Streams of justice take revenge
A fire destroys inadvertently

Soon the suppression lifts
The moon reveals itself to the sky
The day now silently breaking
Behold the irony of love

Trapped within a bitter despair
Cool air forces itself through the trees
And the amble of the day turns to haste
As the crow devours the white dove

The elicited truth bleeds forth
And my hands bathe themselves red
As the grotesque truth is revealed to me
A watered down lie once believed

And its as the night becomes day
Hate replaces love in my heart
And anger streams thought my veins
Destroying a heart no longer for you

I spit in the face of so called truth
I chew on it and regurgitate it back
And I fear this merciless soul-killer
And I find ignorance a pleasing savior

On the surface, you pretend to be.
Powerful, Wealthy, Prestigious
Your friends, your family
So comforting – so perfect.

On the surface, you think you understand.
You act out life’s charade, hoping to be know
Hoping to be loved.
You were born this way, and you shall die as this.

On the surface, you start your construction
You build toward that which you cannot reach
You seek that which is not even there.
To be something you can never be.

But I have burrowed beneath the surface

Underneath you see who you really are.
You life was nothing, so empty.
Your friends abandoned you; your family denied you
So truthful – so hurting.

Underneath is where true knowledge is found.
You begin to reveal the most deadly secrets.
I’ve never been so alone
But I’ve never been so alive.

You tear down the mask you wear.
And go deep within the earth
To find truth; to find yourself
To be what you know you are

You strive so hard,
To see what’s not there.
You begin conjure,
As you sit there and stare

Of glory and riches,
And greatness of all kind,
But what you are really seeing
Is only your mind.

Still you move left and right,
To get a better view,
Of the great glory and power,
That only exists in you.

Your blind faith has taken you,
And from that comes no relief.
But pain and sorrow,
Lay still at your feet.

But those who seek,
The truth behind it all,
They have true riches
They shall not fall.

For the answers lie,
Not in the answers themselves,
But in the question asked,
Just look within yourself.