Another Dark Chapter~ Co write with John Patrick Robbins

Often as adults we question everything where children care blindly without remorse . 

The jaded no longer control the meek and we all find our own way somewhere in between. 

Nobody has the answers , just a few are far more gifted at selling lies as answers . 

We are strangers locked within the same tomb. 

Castaways from are truths so we covered ourselves from their lies . 

Lost within and somehow standing beside others we have little hope for. 

Do we settle for the comfort or embrace the truth to understand all with little to show . 

So close even the rejection can be sensed without a word spoken between. 

Manipulation with dirty fingernails and dry tears cease to effect the outer shell anymore. 

Numb and faded by the games that are played finding that hiding is the best we can do. 

Fear of;  the unknown rapes my senses to the point of slamming all doors while painting lamb's blood across the entry. 

Hence casting away all menacing shadows of past demons. 

This isn't a life, but in being spent, broken, and abused I simply can't afford more than hiding. 

Can you?