Ossuary

Where did they all go? Has each one been slivered? The bright luster once possessed Seems too far away now Each scenery bled from me Beautifully pooled Never one for faces Plenty in the ossuary Shaped grins bear less Endless elements to form Works of my conflict Pangs ring within each one Were they a distraction? Siphoning what remained They couldn't be for nothing I feel it was all for nothing Do they all remain here? Bodies long laid to rest They must still be waiting Time to wake them up Her laugh left it's sting Like a deepened splinter No endeavor has numbed it Maybe I always wanted it Much has been left behind Far too much to forget Is it something I can still find? Am I nothing without it? Do they all remain here? Have they been exhumed? Bodies long laid to rest Left in mounds, they slowly rot They must still be waiting Has their time been misused? Time to wake them up Time to lift them up What if they're only ash? Could they still be shaped? Displaced, an impostor Feels like I've already escaped The path before me Unclear in it's motive May be blind to them May find them lackluster Begging for release I cannot quiet their pangs Relinquished from me Are they freed from the fangs? Because if I can't stay here, and if I don't have a home I'll find my Xen in the stars And crawl, tooth and claw, to what's waiting I've danced this dance before, my feet bled from this sickening waltz! Find me, don't find me! I just want to bring back who I was What brought me here and nowhere else? How should I have done this? What was the right way to die? The climb, the loss, the sun, And now forced penance The Climb The Loss The Sun Bring me to her light, let me beg for her gaze I'm not the man I was before, and that's all of mine to blame See me now, see me now, the shell standing here is cracking The structure is shaking, the metal, bending! Ossuary Who holds the key? Shallow graves hold vapid slivers Dredge or drown? Have they become marred? Revived? Will we escape the carnage? Survived Will the drowning pursue? The Dive Will the earth be lifted? Alive Have they been exhumed? (Concrete brain!) Left in mounds they slowly rot (Paper body!) Has their time been misused? (Paper mind!) Time to lift them up (Concrete man!) Sever mind and body Pull tooth from root Rip crown from claw Disconnect! Back to the Dancing Desert No more tarnishing winds Foundation laid bare Construct the author's path