Passing On
In the depths of sadness where I reside
At the pit of sorrow where all I do is cry
You still are there with me through it all

Though you are gone, though you left this world
I know that you are in a better place
A place where you behold His face
One day I will join you
Until then I pray for mercy
For one such as I because

I will always miss you, I will always remember
The things you taught and the things I learned
Though now your presence I will always yearn
Your memory I keep your memory I hold dear

For you my father I write this
For you in life were excellent
In passing immortalized
Left here I remember that
I can’t forget your smiling face
For you my father I will remember
Until I see you again I pray for mercy
For one such as I have because

Sabotage of Sanity
Innocent looks behind a wall of lies
Guilty conscience despite the tries
To conceal the black evil inside

Alone she cries
Wanting to die, to take the pain away
To restore the order taken day after day
She's closer now to ending it all than ever before
Closer now to self-destruction than her falling tears are to the floor
She's losing the inner struggle
Battles lost, now the war
In constant pursuit of the light at the end of the tunnel
The end of a story
And cries to be muffled
Too late he came back for more
The door opens
Light spills across the dark then retreats
Shutting out all hope, silencing the screams
Turning them to shrieks
Will no one set her free?
Mental hourglass drifting down to nothing
Last few grains falling, every speck crushing life on its own
Whipering doom as it takes sanity away

OUT OF DARKNESS
Source of contamination and decay
Earth bred evil
Comes out at night
But slumbers by day
I wish I may
I wish I might
Purge this ghastly vision
Out of mind, out of sight
And yet still I sit here
Like a stone, cold and pale
Haunted by this living warrant for my arrest
Quaking with fear both inner and physical
As it searches with long ly tendrils
For my life and my soul
Reaching, clawing, intruding on my mind
But does it find what it seeks?
Does this beast claim my all
Or does it fall
Into eternal darkness
Ending all chances at owning me again
For I've found Hope.

ENDING CREDITS
Life loses meaning at the end
Or does it gain it?
Does life find purpose in the light
At the end of the tunnel?
I wonder for I havent seen it
Just closed doors and a funnel
How long do I have before I'm done?
Seeing all I've done in the last blink of an eye
I rise from my body up into the sky
Ha, only now do I get to fly
What was my life worth
Whose future went forward better
Because I was there
Whose paths were straightened
Because I was there
Questions yet unanswered
But asked at points turning
It strikes me as I'm writing
That I'm yearning to make a difference
Words of a poet rarely make much sense
But ask yourself this question:
What have I done to make a difference?

FACELESS ONE
Thrown down
Tossed aside to die
Mangled body
Unfit for this world
From life to be shorn
And yet from the ashes
A being approaches
Scarred and shapeless
Ripped and faceless
Eyes swollen and bruised
Brutalized by captors ruthless
He seeks recompense as he stumbles
Only to find empty hands
And laughing cries
The world turns in disgust
And he wallows in their mistrust
Who am I?
What have I done?
His fault?
The cause for this mutilation and ostracisation?
He was different from the masses
The world s what it doesnt know or understand
So out of its fright it lashes
Destroying what makes the whole unique
From experience I speak.

FRIENDLESS ONE
Cold breezes beckon
Forces of nature
A maelstrom to be reckoned
Hot winds of time
Blind his squinted eyes
As the days pass him by
And alone he cries
Why the rejection
The outcast wonders
Pondering with his own speculation
Stumbling and falling
Leaving behind a troubled past
Running from faces leering, calling
His weakened steps reflect a hunger gnawing
His journey seems endless
His destination but a mirage
Wandering, for he is friendless
Wakeless hours turn to days
Sand turned to stone
Nights passed sleeplessly in drafty caves
Picking on bugs, his hunger to stave
What is the end of this story
Who is this lonely forgotten one
Do you have an answer for me
Picked on, beat up, made fun
Spiritual State of mind depraved
What makes a child pick up a gun
What makes him pull a curtain over the sun
The screams of the crowd
Is a cacophany of sound
The silence of the rejected is loud
Now in a moment of indiscretion
Lives are ruined; forever silenced
Youths with minds infected

CHAINED
Trying to grasp
To comprehend
Is this all?
Is this the end?
In the dark without a friend
And I'm alone inside my mind
Whatever you said was a lie
Half truthes told
Looking away under darkened sky
Forgotten words in anger spoken
Intent for me to cry
And I'm alone in side my mind
Shades drawn tight
Closing out all hope
Day turns to night and still I sight here
Wishing for the light
In the darkness wtihout a friend
And I'm alone inside my mind
And now you leave
Shut the door to cries and pleas
Doomed to solitude nothing more
Trembling silence is a quiet roar

All Lyrics Copyright Tom Burns 2003. All Rights Reserved.