V. eternal depression

times are cold these days when you look at man & see him on his knees in debt to ghosts i look at myself & plunge i've never felt chills like these yet i am here drenched in absence...

from the highest branch you have been detached a gathering of the weak wilted & grey to crumble & decay herd of the unwashed the trampled confined & broken on this cold earth...

forever yearning for what is not all obsessive dreams live & die inside i let them phase me & drive me away I'm drowning with the weight of fear you've dragged me here to; breath tread...

behind my eyes desperate clouds surround the sun all has vanished & i am left tense & empty face down in my palms again vengeful winds whisper in my ears; embrace me seize the light...

nested at the peak of the coldest mountain i stare down to the valley because home isn't home i'll take the long way down the mountain to see & feel it all i'll take the long way down the...