Remove Me From Me...

Why is it if we climb, just to fall? Then tell me, what is the use? We can’t rise without climbing Do we win when ascending in truth? Desperate people have rat’s eyes at best And speak in the language of selfishness… So roughly grab my joyless hand And drag me to the promised land Of cloud song and rainbow sounds Leave a torrent of my tears to drown. I would set fire to a forbidden memory The bitter past left aside to dethrone For it flaunts sadly its odd eccentricity And fiercely defiant, refuses to atone. Under a dark and vermillion sky Where normal lips would not reply I couldnt see sadness from my eye How usual it is for the sad to die? I’m begging to live within another life To re-roll those awful cosmic dice But I know that what I’d find would be, Just one more hidden face of misery. I blink up at the sky with secret eyes That peer out from my grim disguise A mask of brass that scowls and laughs But deep within a tortured soul still writhes…