My lids seem to be open

But I can't feel a face

Or a body beneath my eyes

Still my emotions are torn

Between repentance, temper, and sorrow

Alone in a desert of despair

Familiar faces surrounded by nameless ones

I'm no part of the events

Different life, vacant, counterfeit

Like a ghost levitating above the scene

Able to see, unable to be seen

I'm not part of the events

Different life, vacant, counterfeit

Erased, I've never been born

Unable to make my mistakes

As the abyss took me

As my doubts bear me down

Deleted, misremembered

Letters building words

Altered, rephrased tale

My name does not appear

These pages were deleted

All that's left is bleak and drear

Footprints in the ground

Missing pair of feet

The road they show, hard as before

A sight I can't ignore

Erased, not a twist of fate

An unbreakable curse

Trapped in a loop

Everything happens as foretold

Cycle of pain

Persistent, ongoing

I am eliminated

My existence obliterated

But still I can see

Without me, it's still the same

All the emotions are torn

Between repentance, temper, and sorrow

The pitiless desert of despair