The Rise and Fall of Innocence

Such innocence breathes behind your eyes

Singing such a beautiful melody

Fervent upon escaping to the void

Growing heartily as does the child

Sneaking impending throughout your youth

Skillfully, dutifully plotting for precise release

Only to dissipate upon long awaited release

Never to be seen again by living eyes

Now left reminiscing on your youth

Wishing to remember that long forgotten melody

From when your heart belonged to a child

Seeking out anything to fill that aching void

But there is little that can fill such a void

Much is lost on purity’s release

Not yet a man and no longer a child

A new animal awakes abaft blue eyes

Respiring new tones, a discordant melody

Jarring the foundation laid in your youth

It’s a fight to the end between death and youth

Death prevails, all else retreats to the void

A single note resounds from the final melody

Holding out for the conductor’s release

Time expires, a final gasp escapes your eyes

What’s left of you is your only child

Some small piece becomes your child

A miraculous essence revives your youth

Life brought forth to new eyes

Eyes that you created from the void

A new monster plots its release

Cantillating its sweet misleading melody

All enveloping seductive melody

Takes up root in the heart of the child

Death’s grip will not release

To live we risk our youth

Teetering on the fall before the void

Leaning in we close our eyes

As a child we sing such a delicate melody

Then taste a bittersweet release from our youth

Then falling, the void meets the eyes

Hearts in Atlantis

On days like today

We learn to smile between the hours of disarray

It’s only in the moment we know how to feel

And it’s all we can do not to break

When the sun refuses to rise

And we fight so hard to numb the pain

The silence tells what our mouths couldn’t say

That our body is only just a shell

A dying allusion to a former self

So it seems like we should mourn

And that our hearts must truly ache

But they’ve all but died and paled away

So it’s nights like tonight

When the chest falls as the sun goes down

And fails to rise with the moon

And we feel like it would have been better to never see the stars

Because they make us feel so damn small

That our voice lands just outside of hearing

Like we couldn’t stop the world from turning

And there’s nothing left to break our fall

It’s a sinking feeling like a broken soul

Biding its time all the way down

Underneath the darkest night

A drowning vessel never to be saved

Remember when we used to sit

 Underneath the daytime sky

Telling stories of simpler times

To the clouds passing by

Or how we used to dream of New York City nights

And Atlantis just within our sights

Or friend, have you just forgotten

That we said it would never end

‘Cause I think you did, Yeah I think it did.