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FEARED RUNNING

SEE THE KITTEN AS HE RUNS
TO ESCAPE HIS DROWNING FEAR
COLD AND SENSELESS WITHOUT THOUGHT
NEVER LOOKING BACK TO SEE
HE RUNS FOREVERMORE

AS HE RUNS HE CHANGES SHAPE
NOW HE'S A HUMAN MAN
WITH JET BLACK HAIR AND GLISTENING EYES
A SMILE TO A SMIRK
HE STOPS TO FACE HIS FEAR

NOTHING  HAPPENS AS WE WAIT
TO SEE WHAT FATE SHALL REIGN
HE LOSES SIGHT FOR WHAT HE'S COME
AND THROWS HIS LIFE AWAY

VICTORY HE DOES NOT KNOW
JUST THE AGONY OF DEFEAT
YET NEVER DEFEATED HAS HE BEEN
JUST POKED AND PRODDED BY IGNORANCE
HE TURNS TO START HIS RUN

FOR WHAT TIME I HAD
I WATCHED HIM SO AMAZED
WITHOUT A FLINCH OR TEAR
HE STOOD THERE QUITE ALONE
EVEN THOUGHT I WAS THERE WITH HIM

HE STARTS HIS RUN ONCE MORE
BACK TO KITTEN HE DOES CHANGE
BUT THE FEAR WITHIN HIM IS GONE
AND HE RUNS FROM IT NO MORE
NOW WE SEE HIM DESPERATELY CHASING IT

FEAR HE KNOWS NOT
YET WANTS TO KNOW DEARLY
HIS GLISTENING EYES GROW DARK
AND HIS WHITE FUR IS TARNISHED
HE JUST PASSED ME BY...


NIGHTMARE NIGHTS

SUFFOCATE ME UNTIL I DIE,
UNTIL MY VEINS THEY ALL RUN DRY.

WRISTS ARE SCARRED AND FOOD I LACK,
SO ON MY ROTTING FLESH I'LL SNACK.

DAY GOES BY,
AND TURNS INTO NIGHT,
YOUR GRIEVING ABOVE ME WILL MAKE IT ALL RIGHT.

ON PAINTED FACES TEARS SHALL RUN,
I'D HOPED YOU'D BE THE ONLY ONE.

HIGH HEEL KILLERS OUT OF THEIR MINDS,
PAY THEIR RESPECTS FOR THEIR HEARTS ARE KIND.

MY LIFE WAS LOST AT THE VERY START,
AND WHAT IS NOW LEFT SHALL SOON FALL APART.

THAN I SHALL AWAKEN IN AN EAR PIERCING SCREAM,
ONLY TO FIND THIS WAS ALL A BAD DREAM.


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