Denouement (Less Like A Place, More A Mindset) Poem by Mathew Lewis

Chase the black sunrise
In search of your alibi,
While this is not goodbye
It sure as hell, ain't hello.

Drink the bleeding skies,
Hold your breath for one last night.
All the pain you feel inside
Is about to be let go.

Did you waste your dreams on life,
Hoping for that one last time?
Well don't act so surprised,
Deep down you surely must've known.

Did those pale blue eyes
Leave you no place to hide?
Could they not help disguise
Everything you hoped to hold below?

What did you leave behind
To get buried with your lies?
Did you really hope to find
A truth from which you could grow?

Have the stars grown tired
Of your demands for light?
Now they refuse to shine
Has your world grown a little cold?

Walk away from time,
Watch as love and hate collide.
With no tears left to cry
Never have you felt so alone.

Only holy crimes
Can make a heart go blind.
Without the sense of sight
They soon wander from the road.

Hope so soon defied
Comes with a heavy price.
You're no more fool than I,
No less because you let it show.

There's one more war to fight
That needs you to hold your line.
Though much was said in spite,
Much more was said that we might cope.

Let it all unwind,
And begin the long goodbye.
I won't forget your smile,
Nor the way in which my mind was blown.