Bond of blood
Bond of brotherhood
Bonds are broken
Bonds are lost.
Binding links
Like shrinking chains
A short leash
A quick change.
Tying knots
Unraveled and undone
Shattered dreams
Leaving one.
To despair
Inevitable feeling
Fading memory
Imminent fall.
Final song
A sirens call
Departing hour
Biting past
Broken bonds
Where chains don’t last.
Stay away I tell myself, but I miss the feel.
I love, I crave.
The sickening addiction I can’t escape.
Helpless, and a slave.
Intoxication.
Through my veins, into my soul.
Clear my mind, and take me whole.
Melt my pain with numbing flow.
Intoxication.
Every hit I feel freed, and chained down as I bleed.
I hate what this does.
But for more, I beg, I plead.
Intoxication consuming me.
There, and back, and back, and back again.
Repetition is comforting, the habit consoling.
But poisons break me down.
Intoxication.
I’m shaking in, all the way to the bone.
Withdrawal leaves wanting, and wanting again.
For the next, I need, I desire.
Intoxication burns like fire.
Filled with lust, disgusting hunger.
Stealing, taking, the things not mine.
Thrown away to quell my want.
Intoxication, I’m suffering.
For the world, I give my soul.
No hill too high,
No challenge too hard, with my heart I pay the toll.
Gladly, I will hold it all in my arms.
To transform, to become the support,
And carry the weight of creation from my knees.
I am Atlas.
The world is on my back.
For a friend, I give my life.
Their struggles, their pain, their strife.
Gladly, I will carry it all.
I can be the net to prevent the fall,
and carry the weight of companionship from my knees.
I am Atlas.
The world is on my back.
For you, I give my heart.
Even if I fall apart, gladly,
I will shoulder it all.
If I can carry the weight of the heart from my knees,
The burden will be a breeze.
I am Atlas, your world is on my back.
Forgotten Echoes 