DRIFTING

In this sea of black and red
I see the faces of the dead

Sirens blare and hope is lost
To cross this threshold takes a cost

Fire burns all over me
I kill my heart to make it free

Nothing new and nothing fare
Nothing here except dispair

This place I’ve known for all my years
Has brought to me a thousand tears

And now I drown in blood and flame
Yet still so empty all the same

I cannot leave, it’s not my will
To leave is death, it is to kill

My soul is bound to this nightly sea
This place is hell, but it is me

Yongjing

^The Article of Nature^