Lost hope

If I could find a way
to run away from this world,
I would run
and run
and run
into the great wide unknown
lamenting my sorrows into the darkness
until they far outnumber the cold stars.

Twinkle twinkle little star
how they must wonder what you are
what you will become
what you were
when the world falls to its knees in mercy
talking its last breaths in through clogged windpipes,
not a song left to sing, is there?

Do re me fa so lonely they are
left alone in the world
running through the darkness
but wait-
there is no darkness,
it has become our light.

it illuminates our flaws
our cracked minds
our cardboard signs written in tears and the stains of our wounds
'L        S              H       P
     O       T               O        E.

We dance in the dreams of the fallen now, 
our pale, 
twisted façades become your nightmares
leave you to wake up in the morning in a cold sweat,
comforted by a parent we never had,
given things we never had,
being consoled by empty words that filled our souls. 

We are the children of the rope, 
the flame,
the knife,
the beatings,
the drugs,
the alcohol,
the pain,
the words,
the cuts.

Welcome to our black parade,
where beautiful dancers wear the soft down of broken dreams
and our clowns tell twisted tricks of death.

say good bye to your old life
say goodbye to your sanity-
there's no space for that here. 

Welcome to the halls of hades,
we haunt the shadows
we are the only light in this forsaken place-
don't worry, 
you'll get used to it eventually,
after all, 
you're one of us now.