Through the Eyes of Regret

Elegeion

I have found myself lost
 Walking down these familiar streets,
 Those strange faces stare blindly
 I withdraw into my mind
 In this solitude, it is sadness I find

 In lament, I live a lie
 I long to live, yet hope to die…

 Eyes window the pain
 Contained in me
 Face masks the torment
 You will never, ever see

 Enclosed within these walls
 They've muted all my cries
 Trapped alone in darkness
 I never felt alive
 Then I briefly saw the light
 A fools paradise
 I felt the sun's warm rays
 When you gave me back my life

 But now that dusk i near
 Lost again, I find
 I'm back in those dark woods,
 Although now I've seen the light
 Although it shone so brief
 It cleansed through my mind
 But as a fire soon burns out
 All the hope I had has died

 I walked through the shady graves
 Buried beneath the mire
 Not a single soul can be saved
 In weariness, I tire
 Oh, how I long to live!
 Yet I hope… to die.