Darker than night
Brighter than day.
Hidden from sight
Shown through pain.

No one is coming
No one will leave
Someone is here
But not to save me

Was I wrong to trust
Was I wrong to go
With the man
Who took my soul

My soul
Once innocent
Now is not
From me taken
But not forgot

Mad and empty
Now my heart
For I was torn apart

From the core
Of my existence
I fall into
A new resistance

Ignore the pain
Says my heart
Perhaps it will disappear
But it always comes back
Once each year.

Solid reminder
But I must forget
Lest I lose the hope
Of smiling again

I smile but it is not true
Of that I am sure

Dark as night
Bright as day
Fake as plastic
Shown through the veil
Of pain