Fading

Full of talent, love, and life

Yet you waste away

Locked in your despair

Trapped in a web of deception

That you can’t escape from

I can’t bear to watch you

Throw everything away

You’re so proud and arrogant in your assumptions

Too stuck in your ways

To accept the outstretched hand

Reaching into your nightmare

Desperately seeking to help you

I can’t find a way to save you

Your mind is too lost in its own pain

Frantically trying to run away from your problems

Shunning any sign of light

And hiding form the tormenting reality

Curled beneath the blankets

Under the clever disguise of sleep

You thing that nobody knows but you

The shadows in your face

Betray your sacred secret

It’s so easy to see as you do

The massive ropes of suffering

Binding you in this place of hurt

Holding you forever in your self-inflicted hell

For some reason you won’t open your eyes

You don’t want to know

About the pain you hand out

The tragic tears that are caused by your spiteful words

To rescue you is not an option any longer

You have sunk so deep

Into your depression

That to approach you without being harmed is impossible

Vicious shadows of doubt and fear

Surround you with their protective chains

The talent and love you used to possess

Has faded into your despair

Your life has disappeared

Gone, slipping silently away into the emptiness

Of your safe haven

Trapped in a web of deception

From which you can’t escape