Dead End

Everything said was just an illusion.
Now I'm right where you want me, so beat me down and smash my crown.
Take away my title; tear the heart from my body for one thing so vile.
Through betrayal and failure, I've ripped you from your disguise.
Only to uncover your corrupt ways and awful lies.
Heartache fills me so.
It's only a matter of time before you go; defiling the love I once had for you.
What has already dwindled now falls before me,
Burning in the very flames you've created.
Melting into the nothingness you've left behind.

Stealing the light from my eyes, and the life from my lips.
At the feel of your touch I ignite,
At the sound of your voice I crumble.
Dead inside is what I am.
Murdered by love and thrown aside.
Stuck in this trench where my life will end.
Falling in the reflection of your eyes as you provide my downfall.
Wincing with every breath I take to stay alive,
Cringing with every false attempt to rise.

You're scorching every bridge crossed while I drown in the pain of every love lost.
A failure to the world is what I've become.
Hanging from this ledge with your knife in my back.
I'm holding onto something only I know so well.
A dream, a memory, something so vivid that only in the darkness will it dwell; as absent in your eyes as the love I give.
In deceit you go dancing again.
Breaking me down like the walls now on the ground.
In pieces you leave me, cracked, shattered, and as sharp as glass.
As helpless as a shard of grass to a giant.
Treating me like a child until I am compliant .

You sail like the wind right through my heart, taking with you all that is secure, all that could keep me here.
Tidal waves of disaster have filled my mind, and the truth is shown.
You've demolished all that I know, leaving me with a clean slate.
To start over, but is too late.
Asphyxiated by your words and tossed away like bait.
To the sharks I'll be fed, without a happy ending.
The light of tomorrow is dead, the eyes of my soul are disintegrated; and there's no preview of what's to come.

Blinded by the sight of me, but this is what you've done.
Carved this mind from hate and desire, drained me of all life and left everything to burn in the fire.
Reflecting off the water with the blood of another, like all the others you've destroyed .
Now the missile you've deployed is soon to hit; to dismiss the ones in its path from living in all things wretched.
This hole, from which you stole something so precious, bleeds no more.
Like my once beating heart, you've now filled them with nothing to admire.
Removing all hope, you've departed this tightrope; a liar.