The smell of burning flesh was on you like a disease
We swam through a sea of choking smoke to a place beyond the fire
The city was empty, but the rivers were full of suicide
I remember you said with a hint of coldness in your voice, "They always
float face down."
I wanted to kiss you there so I could forget for just a second the despair
all around us
But you made me realize I'd rather dwell among despair
I'd rather bathe in death than ever feel love for you again
Time rested her weary eyes
The swirling waters and the fading sky stood still
You waded through the calm water sending pulses through my soul
Your fingertips graced the lifeless bodies you passed
You spread your dirty wings and lifted your head to heaven
I waited on the crumbling shore for you to throw back some sort of real
feeling my way
It's what I had been hungering for
You peered through God's window with green eyes
Tear drops mixed with hopelessness and fear drowned the only last words you
had to say You clipped your own wings and we both whatched the sky turn to
blackness and the waters around you to blood
You turned slightly to look back at my tattered figure
Just like a slowly wilting rose you stood there
There was poetry in this hatred
A poetic feeling that choked whatever it was that was eating me inside
You slowly sank beneath the glassy water, joining the rest of the population
at the murky bottom
I felt your life snuffed away the moment you took in that last drowning
breathe
The sunrise evoked the remorse and longing I once had
The numbness I faced turned to cinders that fell like snow
I left my name carved in the flesh of that city
I left a piece of me at the riverbed where we last said goodbye
I walked the barren streets
The scent of suicide hanging in the air
I'm all alone in an ocean of skyscrapers and despair
I'm all alone in a suicide city
We're all alone in a life of sorrow

 
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