Acceptance

Acceptance

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Time flows

Nobody knows

The years go by

Where we go

Alone from here

Night falls

Strange-colored walls

My eyes deceive

What is wrong

With me?

Deep in the night

You think everything's right

Tell it to yourself

Say it's just a nightmare

Something is telling you

Nothing can change where you are

Again

Why should it matter

Your dreams of a child?

Innocence is gone

Only fear to play with

Faces are changing

But nothing is changing the pain

Too late

Two steps I take

Getting closer and closer

And one more breath I take

Sends me further back

Over and over it calls to your soul

Say it isn't so

Emptiness surrounds you

No one can help

If the angels refuse to come here

Who's there?

Cold-faded photos

They lay by your side

Something in my room

Never mind blue reason

Visions are lying

And reasons just live to survive

This time

The cold, the light

The fear returning

It's not the eyes

You feel that's chilling you