Do We Feel...?

Do we feel the deaths of strangers?
Borne upon an angels wings?
The ravens flock,
And the crows cry,
Mourning the deaths of all.

The griffins fight blood spilling on the ground.
Red trees growing from red ground,
All birds cry,
Cry for the deaths of all.

The glass-shard pieces of lives
Scattered across the world.
Millions of cold lights reflecting off the pieces.
The dragons flame, burning bright.
Sun in the day, moon in the night.
The rain pours down of the corpses of those once loved,
The tears of long lost and forgotten gods.

The empty and lost dreams of humans,
Never to touch the falling skies.
Lost to the magic of the world that was once at their fingertips.

Now all is lost,
Lost to the Dance of the Mayflies.
Lost to the dead,
Drowned in tears.

Now close your eyes and dive into the reality,
The reality of a dead world.
The reality of the manacles and chains
Of this insane sanity.

Now open your eyes and fall into your own mind.
Fall into your own world, and watch the chains fall away.
Line up the pieces and watch life come into play.
This is where I live, where I think, where I feel.
And in my broken world I breathe.
Freer then you will ever know.

“To venture in the Fair Unknown,
I must enter as I leave.
A traveler.
Alone.”

And so does the unknown beckon to me.
The unknown darkness, the unknown death.
This vast space inside me,
That something has yet to fill.

That space where my emotions used to lie.
Now all I feel is an empty ache,
And I smile because that is all I know.
It is an empty smile, an empty laugh, empty words,
Dead of all emotion.

So now I struggle, so now I hurt,
Because that is all I can feel.
Don’t tell me that it’s all in my head,
That it will all go away tomorrow.

Because I have been waiting for the dawn to break,
For tomorrow to come,
But it is just getting darker,
And tomorrow will never come for me.

Because this reality has caught me in an iron cage,
All my memories,
All my emotions,
And even my soul,
Caught in that Other World.

And now I tell you,
And now I say,
If all you have learned is to stay away.

Away from your mind,
And away from the Other World,
So be it.

It is better than feeling nothing.
Nothing but pain and rage.