Byron's Demons
Forsaken love for another taste
Of human flesh and adult waste
I live a life that dwells in skin
I have no sense of mortal sin
Within my soul I feel disgraced
A heart degraded and misplaced
For what I was, I never knew
And what I am cannot be true
I had a heart that loved and longed
But in my mind I know I’m wronged
Worthless, soulless and bound for dirt
Forgotten pain and swallowed hurt
Shared love is lost within a dream
Of passion sought to extreme
To escape the past, my broken world
From which unbound I was hurled
No god of wisdom can dwell inside
For love I lived and for love I died
Honest dreams forgot their place
And led me to a godless face
I see dull eyes look back at me
And in that stare I cannot see
The man I once believed I was
He is gone and all because
I chose a dream and had such hope
But it swings above like a hangman’s rope
I have no faith I dream no more
Bitterness lurks within the core
My mind is numb and empties still
And in my thoughts I want to kill
All thoughts of love and honesty
Only passion now will set me free
But the past is lost, a ghost in flight
That leads me through an endless night
No torch is lit but the fire burns
And no love is given to this heart that yearns
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