Lay of the Ashes

You, who isolates yourself within despair reflecting only poisoned roots and gnarled branches twisting Allowing vines to wrap your mind and lay it bare With all your hope abandoned to this fiction you are living You, who only sees a barren path ahead No peaceful shade to offer only rended branches swaying The quiet that you sought now suffocates instead forcing you to hear the very heart that you are breaking What whispered words do you hear in a voice you do not know Could the lies that you believe be a fear of the unknown If you don't know who you are then who is it you hate All the lies that swallow you whole Don't even know your name Hey Hey Hey Who is it you hate Hey Hey Hey Who is it you hate You, the seed within a heart that reaches out to satisfy a thirst you've never known before existed But you're too far from any source to end your drought No wellspring to call upon No rivers to descend in So you, who dwells upon horizons out of view The ground that you were sown upon is desolate and wilting An empty pattern that is mirroring your truth that no matter what you have you'll only dream of what you're missing What whispered words do you hear in a voice you do not know Could the lies that you believe be a fear of the unknown If you don't know who you are then who is it you hate All the lies that swallow you whole don't even know your name Hey Hey Hey Who is it you hate Hey Hey Hey Who is it you hate You, a shadow of the life that you project Your withered leaves bely this lonely visage you protect And carved upon this vessel are the scars that you collect A gallery of truths that would be better to forget But you, a cinder of the fire that's yet to come Will you just sit and mourn this fragile thing that you've become Or instead will you consume the very things you can't outrun Until you finally see all of the strength that you draw from What whispered words do you hear in a voice you do not know Could the lies that you believe be a fear of the unknown If you don't know who you are then who is it you hate All the lies that swallow you whole don't even know your name Hey Hey Hey