I Am The Rain Assemblage 23

Are deadly traits when they're combined But it's easier that way Sit and watch the world go by While all the problems multiply With nothing left to do but pray I am the rain Falling down to cover you

Infinite Assemblage 23

"Like a grain of sand Swallowed by the desert Like a drop of rain That falls from darkened clouds I am overwhelmed I stand here awed and humbled At the feet of giants Whose shadows stretch for miles

Raw Assemblage 23

Raw Unsheltered and exposed When every door is closed There's nowhere left to find protection Now All that I have left Is this brutal, wreckless depth I'm running scared with no direction Dark The only

Never Forgive Assemblage 23

I won't waste my time You can suffer alone Crying your shrill litany In endless drones Rain down tears of regret You haven't seen the worst of it yet Your name a foul epithet Never forgive, never forget

Naked Assemblage 23

Awake, aware, alone Lost and far from home I walk without these walls So there is less to fall I am naked I have nothing left My bones are picked clean And riddled with regrets Nothing can touch me I've

Cocoon Assemblage 23

Even though I know it's only chemical These peaks and valleys are beginning to take their toll Trying to convince myself that all it takes is time But the most derisive voice I hear is mine It opens all

Tragic Figure Assemblage 23

Once you had it all And threw it all away Day became your night Night became your day Did it ever rain When the skies were clear? Does it help explain How your turned up here?

Bi-Polar Assemblage 23

mysteries revealed Love's great promises delivered I hate my life, I want to die I was just pretending all this time A mask I wear so I don't bare My soul to the cold, harsh world out there Try to prevail

Light Assemblage 23

I stand in a barren void that's featureless No sight or sound can penetrate at all Though silent storms may try to tear me down When dusk descends, I'll still be standing tall To the ones who want me on

Awake Assemblage 23

I am lost The footprints that I left have disappeared For now, I am driving blind Accelerate Without a destination to welcome me This road is just an endless loop Every time I close my eyes The noise inside

Darker Assemblage 23

The world is asleep with its head in its hands Unable to meet such disparate demands Cries of frustration resound in its head And strewn at its feet are the souls of the dead Tearing the fractured divisions

Purgatory Assemblage 23

"So here I stand Completely alone My skin absorbs the rain Helpless to control Pieces within the whole I can feel it starting again A sudden descent I never meant To manifest itself Caught unaware In frozen

Damaged Assemblage 23

I am merely the product Of the life that I've lived An amalgam of sorrows And the wisdom they give But the weight has grown heavy And its dragging me down It's so hard not to sink now But I don't want

Old Assemblage 23

When I grow old And my memory Leads me deep into the fog where it abandons me Will you remind me Of who I used to be When I was younger?

Surface Assemblage 23

Fall, seize I am merely debris Scattered along the ground False rage A man in a cage An explosion without a sound Drawn in By the deafening din Crumbling into dust Look down Watching me drown Choking on

Disappoint Assemblage 23

Did I let you down? Did I stand on the shore And watch you as you drowned? Can you forgive me?

Ground Assemblage 23

Be still Though chaos reigns around you now Only so much rain can fall at once Breathe in And let the air envelope you And slow and sure serenity will come Close your eyes Try to breathe Feel the ground

Truth Assemblage 23

The truth is like a dancer with shattered limbs What once stood proud and graceful is languishing And the midday sun beats down from above like a giant fist That evaporates the veracity from within our

Drive Assemblage 23

"When chaos reigns without a purpose When the swell of sound becomes too much Crushed between the cogs that work us When I feel I'm slowly losing touch Sometimes I drive to run from all my demons Sometimes

Silence Assemblage 23

"I want you to know the thoughts My mind contains I want you to feel the rage Pulse through my veins I want you to see the anger In my eyes I want you to feel fear For your own life I want to see the tears

Pages Assemblage 23

I read your mind But it wasn't a very interesting read The plot was contrived And the characters were too consumed by need Page by page Enduring each predictable turn The paper dissolves beneath my fingers

Madman's Dream Assemblage 23

I saw cities swallowed by the ocean I saw children crying in the streets Hundreds stranded on the overpass Bodies rotting in the brutal heat Cries for help fell on deaf ears 5 days passed and no one came

House on Fire Assemblage 23

Sifting through the ashes With unsteady hands Searching for the remnants Of a broken man A history of hollow lives And low ideals A backlog of wrongdoing We never conceal I stand up And walk away from

Opened Assemblage 23

This day has altered my perception I'll never see things quite the same All that I knew was misconception But all of that's about to change I opened my eyes today The world looks so bright and strange

Let The Wind Erase Me Assemblage 23

Attenuate the light of day So I can see the lines and details And not the hazy, plastic blur That floods my eyes 'til I can't see Let the winds erase me Like the memory of a kiss Let these waters take

Sorry Assemblage 23

I'm sorry I can't bleed for you The way you want me to To throw myself against the rocks The way I used to do I'm sorry that I can't prolong The pain I've been put through I'm sorry, yes I'm sorry So sorry

Document Assemblage 23

"In stillness A silent weight Pausing as the minutes each evaporate A desire To leave a scar To raise a voice from within the dark Decaying Cascading Existence falls apart Around me Within me So I must

Tried Assemblage 23

I tried, I failed to believe In the reward I would receive If only heaven's distant sun Would burn away all the things I'd done I tried to no avail To keep my eyes from growing pale But my vision came

Divide Assemblage 23

"I lost myself in shapeless oceans Whose depths concealed more than they showed Beliefs obscured by mists around them A legacy they'd been bestowed Columns of ice paint awkward pictures Distorted forms

Sun Assemblage 23

The first day I felt changed I felt removed and broken Over man Over God But weak by the same token Wherewithal Has dissolved A soulless apparition Loss of choice Lost my voice Condemned and then conditioned

Regret Assemblage 23

"Some time ago I checked my conscience And found it wasn't all that clean A trail of people I had hurt A sea of sins left unredeemed CH Regret is a dull and rusted blade That covers me with scars that

Longevity Assemblage 23

"I forgive your weakness In light of all this bleakness You were merely human Destined to be ruined Startled as your brevity Turned to my longevity I can't follow your steps Can't go the places you went

Human Assemblage 23

There have been times throughout my life When I fell so far I thought I'd never stand again I watched my dreams depart These aberrations had their place In the grand design But it's unnatural to feel So

Maps Of Reality Assemblage 23

I suppose in your mind you believe you were right That the matter doesn't rest heavy on your shoulders But be careful of the ones you wish to indict Blame is merely in the eye of the beholder Perhaps the

Coward Assemblage 23

So quiet I can barely hear your lies Coward Was it too hard for you To simply tell the truth?

Fallen Down Assemblage 23

And once you stood so strong Your eyes alight with promise You vowed to carry on A heart once beat in your chest Cut forward to another day Another time, another place You're not who you used to be And I

Crush Assemblage 23

In dying light, the day is fading Defeated eyes regard the sun That sinks behind the broad horizon Until the two melt into one Beneath the gravity of failure Pinned to the unforgiving earth Bargains we

Binary Assemblage 23

Monochromatic reasoning A divide and conquer legacy Dissect and over-simplify All hail the death of compromise CHORUS The world isn't rendered in black and white Other shades lie between Don't view the

Skyquake Assemblage 23

The morning broke in eerie silence The ground beneath us cracked and dry Too self absorbed to even notice The cracks that formed up in the sky Twisting Turning Freezing Burning Tearing Fusing Lucid Confusing

Consequence Assemblage 23

Mere apologies won't undo what you've done The echoes linger on, the backlash has begun Feigned indifference, your least convincing mask But deep down inside, its forgivness that you ask When hurt and

Blindhammer Assemblage 23

broken And our prophets are insane There is no one left to guide us No catalyst for change We are too young to know better But frailty comes with age So we run towards Armageddon While our legs still have the

King Of Insects Assemblage 23

screen When there's no interface to face To be seen King of insects You eat your own Atop an anthill You call your throne Kingdom of one So unaware As one-by-one your subjects Vanish into air Chatter to the

Anthem Assemblage 23

"We are born of stone And etched by wind Cast aside to live or die We are the pawns in our own game Like refugees Of silent wars We step on ever-shifting ground Promoting what we undermine For countless

Lullaby Assemblage 23

May you find solace in the gentle arms of sleep Despite the wolves outside your door In time you will see them all as harmless And their idle threats easy to ignore And if ever fate should choose to smite

Decades V2 Assemblage 23

Time is like a serpant That devours its own tail The coils grow ever-tighter With each moment it inhales A forboding sense of deja v That cannot be ignored Its hard to help but feel Weve seen and done

Ghosts Assemblage 23

A thousand footsteps without direction Adrift like snowfall from winter skies Aimless parades of burning ambivalence Selling false hope in certainty's guise Living and breathing in sorrow's colossus The

You Haven't Earned It Assemblage 23

You crave attention As if it's due to you You want permission To behave as badly as you do You want respect but You don't act respectable You want fame to fill the void Where you once had a soul But you

7 Days Assemblage 23

Seven daysI'll never leave this house againSeven daysI'll never leave this house againSeven daysI'll never leave this room againSeven daysI'll never leave this room againSeven daysI'll never leave ...

23 Baby Queen

Come on let me kiss you like a boy does A societal opinion, it's poison, ugh If I could take you outside for a second Hold my laugh while I change my sweater Am I insane in the brain, am I stoned, am I

Strawberry Letter #23 Brothers Johnson

Hello, my love I heard a kiss from you Red magic satin playing near, too All through the morning rain I gaze - the sun doesn't shine - Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind In the garden - I see