Let Me Sleep Forever

A songbird tried to give me this advice

She said if you want it bad enough

You'll make the sacrifice

To kill the things within you you don't like

And shed the tattered skin you wore

To fashion something nice

But if you choose to turn your back again

And ignore the strength you're given

From the voice inside the pen

May mercy place a hold upon your soul

And may you think back to the moment

That you let the beauty go

Do you carry your pain on the inside

Or do you spit it out like venom

To the ones who need it most

Do you live with a hunger for insight

Or do you stand with all the rest

That take advantage of this gift that we call time

I'll give you what I owe

If you can let me go

Look right to my eyes and hold me

Captive to this notion that my

Depths can reach the ocean floor

I hear the raven quoth

It's nevermore

Drive the final nail into

The piece of me that cares for two

But leaves with empty hands

A severance from all the thought

Burdened by the time I've lost

By giving hope the chance

Do you carry your pain on the inside

Or do you spit it out like venom

To the ones who need it most

Do you live with a hunger for insight

Or do you stand with all the rest

That take advantage of this gift that we call time