Whispers

Empty is this place
Battered is my heart
Scars upon my face
I have come apart

Forever in your grasp
To never walk alone
I wander in this darkened world
My heart has turned to stone

Places black as coal
Where light is never shed
The air is stale and pungent here
The contents of my head

Straining for a glimpse
Of what lies through the dark
But all I grasp is emptiness
And I have come apart

Whispers in my head
Telling me to run
And tell you that I love you
Before we come undone

Whispers in my head
Quieting my fear
Telling me the reckoning of judgment day is near

I hate to see the end
Of all that we hold dear
But we cannot defend
A history of lie
Aggression, genocide
But people still pretend
That we are innocent