goodbye

The distance hides a cold visage
that seems to haunt me from its camouflage:
A face that's torn in crooked laugh
that spawned on all my troubled years' behalf.

Wherever I can see is death,
I feel it when I take my very breath,
and skulls are scatter'd on the ground,
A chilling silence is the only sound.

I can not shake this coldness off,
I breathe this poison air with ev'ry cough.
If only I could find my way
back from this path that led me so astray.

I harm the ones I truly love,
in scorn I raise my fist at all above.
I loathe the one I have become
and know with time I slowly must succumb:

Succumb to my despair and fear,
for I have lost all that I once held dear.
The world in pieces, torment left:
All beauty lost, as if by lowly theft.

All I have left now is this knife:
I tire of this endless, hollow strife.
I then let out a final sigh.
I say, "goodbye."