The paths that I once tread

have all but gone.

Only embers now smoulder

where bridges once burned.

I feel alive and yet I fear

what may happen now.

I know I can't return.



And I hear me say again

'oh let me not return'.

Damn the illusion of redemption

and the hopes that held me here.

I will oppose all that would befall me.

With this rage inside of me

I will defy what I would become.



The solitude and anger

that do battle inside me

will always guide me to the answers

that I know I may not see.

They are the bonds that hold me tighter.

They are the chains that weigh on me.

One day I know they will be gone.



Can I start again and erase this pain

by casting doubts into the waters,

asking judgement of the sea.

Though fortune may guide to the fools

I have no wish to be free

until I am gone.