To help them mend a broken heart
Or maybe make them smile
A new beginning, a place to start
Or maybe accept denial

To help them feel they're not alone
A reason to wipe their tears
To soften a heart that's turned to stone
Or calm their deepest fears

To help them find tomorrow's sun
When things aren't looking bright
Help them forgive the wrong they've done
And help them make it right

To help them find their hopes and dreams
That's faded by the way
Show them it's nothing like it seems
To tell them it's okay

To help them grasp their inner peace
To make it like it was
To help them know their pain will cease
That's what a poem does

I've tasted tears from broken hearts
I've known my share of pain
I've worn the shoes of crippled souls
With the shadows that remain

My sleeve has tried to comfort me
As it wipes away the past
The memories trapped inside a tear
Were destined not to last

I've heard the sound of shattered dreams
Drifting farther out of sight
While promises fade away like mist
Disappearing into the night

My hand still reaches across the bed
Expecting to touch your skin
Finding nothing but a broken heart
Where your body should have been

I didn't know love hurt this much
Until you said goodbye
Now I'm supposed to forget your name
Tell me how, I'll try

Today she lives on memories
Morsels of her past
Betrayed by time and left to die
Death's shadow has been cast

The wrinkles on her lonely face
Tell stories of joys and pains
A map of sorts, of who she was
Is all that now remains

She has no need for future things
No need to understand
Living now because she must
Beyond the things she'd planned

No one to tell her stories to
They start to fade away
She sadly waits her time to die
While living in yesterday

Trapped between this life and death
Her tears begin to speak
Another memory she won't share
Starts running down her cheek

She's now become invisible
It's like she doesn't exist
But when she's gone, it won't be long
Until she's truly missed

She had so much to offer us
Wisdom that we refused
Silently slipping through the cracks
A treasure that we abused

She paid the dues that life demands
Then quietly disappears
Left alone, she fades away
The wrinkles and the tears

I hide my screams so no one hears
A breath is all it takes
I swallow all my loneliness
I hate the sound it makes

My heart keeps beating I don't know why
I know I'm dead inside
My tears won't fall there's nothing there
My pain has somehow dried

The mirror no longer looks at me
I hide my face in shame
It's me that made myself this way
I fully take the blame

Death won't even call my name
I'm not worth his time
I cannot hate what doesn't exist
My existance is a crime

One more day I have to breathe
I'm not worth the trouble it takes
Oxygen to me is only temptation
For one of nature's mistakes

I didn't know the moon could cry
But I saw it with my own eyes
It looked like rain the day you died
As tears fell from the skies

Some people said it was only rain
But I knew the moon was sad
It rose each night to stare at you
'Til the jealous stars got mad

These days it doesn't shine as bright
As it did for you back then
Sometimes it won't come out at night
Its sorrow keeps it in

The sun shines a little longer now
To cover for the moon
Some people say it's longer days
But it's because you left too soon

I saw the moon the other night
Just before the rain
But we know it wasn't rain at all
It's tears from all its pain

I breathe the air of discontent
I fail in all my goals
I walk the path that never ends
Not knowing where it goes

My hopes and dreams are buried deep
In a place that I can't find
I follow voices only I can hear
Within my infected mind

I tell them my soul is not for sale
But yet they beckon me come
I peer into this place unknown
That's too unholy for some

What have I on earth to trade?
A failure since my birth
Even hell would turn its back
A scar upon this earth

Cursed to walk this world alone
An illusion, nothing real
Friend to me is a foreign word
Too numb to even feel

A stranger lives inside of me
One I do not know
She sees the things I cannot see
She often tells me so

I sometimes recognize her voice
It's one I've heard before
I listen 'cause I have no choice
A ghost I can't ignore

I pray for peace from day to day
But she will not hear my plea
She says that she is here to stay
She's become a part of me

She whispers things 'til late at night
My soul can find no rest
It's useless when I try to fight
But still I do my best

I've tried to **** this voice inside
My quill the weapon I use
But nothing helps, for all I've tried
I still can't silence my muse