Unto the Locust

In this struggle Are we dead or alive? Freedom is not existence It's why we survive Shake our grief Hold on to belief It can't enslave us forever There is relief No change will be permanent Our strength enduring Bright incandescent Take a chance befo

Sweet caress Grazes my skin It's loveless These hooks sink in Behind an angel's disguise An insect preys Mandibles cut like a knife The reckoning Forming clouds Their shadow shrouds Louder than tattered wings they sound Descending down Down they come

Here in the darkness that I lay depression heavy in its weigh And how my body aches to leave to sing its final eulogy My sons I love you evermore and though the road beckons once more I see the damage that I've done in search for redemption But I am