When humanity
Moves us all one down
Beyond conscious light
Nothing but a frown
A distant pagan wind
In its revelling once said
Life's only worth living
When the world has left you for dead.

Fated destiny
Shattered at a word
Unfurled emotion
Spoken but not heard
Punctured thoughts of laughter
To be trapped underground
Sunken treasure sinking
Only the lost are ever found

A facade of love
A muddied silk shirt
In hypocrisy
I don't feel your hurt
A bullet fired in anger
Attacks will never cease
Until somebody learns
That war will never give us peace

Shafts of light prevail
The small will increase
Kicked when lying down
A dog without a leash
Blur the lines of fiction
A sign in foreign skies

Sometimes to learn the truth
You have to believe all the lies

I will be strong
I will face my trial
I will go on
Tested as by fire.
Daniel Parkes