An Ode to Death Before Life

This is for all those starless nights;
those lonely skies.
This is for all those worry lines;
those marks for time
gone passing by.

Here's to the pain we hold inside-
with the hearts we hide.
Here's to the journey that we take;
to stay away and
save the world from our dismay.

All that time we spent labeled as 'The Selfish';
'The Weak and the Hellish'.
All that time we spent wandering around helpless;
begging for help from strangers
who got high off our messes.

This is for all those lonely nights;
those empty eyes.
This is for all those tears we cried;
our only signs of life
when feelings died.

Here's to the pain we hold inside-
the hearts we hide.
Here's to the fact that we tried;
and we tried, and we tried.
until it screwed what was left of our minds.

and we tried, and we tried.