Fading Smoke

I close my eyes and hope to fall asleep.

Am I dreaming or is this just unreal?

looking at the void where breathing used to be

all the faults I've made it's what is left to see...

The beast within paints footsteps in blood,

a canvas once so pure waiting by the phone,

in all the innocence I wasn't the one aware

like a fallen god, is this my cross to bear?



Among crowded streets

I walk through the emptiness,

a lit cigarette slowly fades away...

Painted grayness of what life became,

see the colors on a life of black & white,

making up rules in or out the game

when all my dreams were lost

and jaded, in just a day!



Smiling to the eyes of strangers,

in silence is where I find myself,

as the ashes grow colder on fading smoke

a flame extinguishes slowly for another burn!