Hiding The Hurt, Hiding The Pain

Hiding the hurt, hiding the pain

Hiding the tears that fall like rain

Saying I’m fine when I’m anything but

This ache in my soul rips at my gut

My skin is on fire

I burn from within

The calm on my face is an ongoing sin

The world must stay out, I’ve built up a wall

My fragile lie will collapse should it ever fall

Loneliness consumes me

It eats away the years

Until my life is swallowed by unending fears

Waiting for someone to see I wear a mask

And care enough to remove it

Is that too much to ask?

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Refrain

Guitar strings in repeat

I stop at a moment’s breath

This song I play is but the same

An endless cacophony of

Meaningless

Noise

I hear a round of applause

Bright beautiful colours

A crowd clapping for a stage

The artist

Lost

Alone in the song

Guitar strings in repeat

I continue to play along

Hoping things would one day change

A bridge to another verse

An escape from this refrain

Prelude

I am a new beginning

The first page

A hopeful dream

I am the door to a new world

The first flight to a new sky

The last train to a new town

The beginning of the end

An old story made new

I am a new beginning

A character born of necessity

The first step into the dark

The last breath before the dive

The beginning of you and I

I am a new beginning

Leave the past behind

Come take my hand

And let us carve

Our new plot

Together