Nothing Comes of Nothing

By Ali
Date: 28 January 2001

Nothing Comes of Nothing

Time is sighing Softly still As I sit In quiet repose Thinking... Dreaming... Remembering... Forgetting... All the passion's locked inside All the courage bound and chained And here in the silence Whispers float by On the breeze That is camly still "Nothing comes of nothing..." Again I falter But do not fall Crack... But refuse to shatter Everything lost Everything found... The angels had their say But the devils had his way And I wonder what becomes Of me When all of this is said And done When the end is past Will it have been The end of us Or the end of me? And darkness speaks As light follows Sweeping up the mess You left behind Picking up the peices Scattered from yesterday To now... And the money's been spent On candied dreams That turned out to be Bitter sweet The end is assured But the outcome From where I sit Lies unseen Maybe it's just my eyes Maybe it's all in the way I see things Without seeing them At all... Willingly I gave my heart Knowingly you took it... And with an unknown motive Kept it with you When you left... As the days unravel Peice by tattered peice I try to gather the knowledge That is hidden within each shred But it seems the tighter you grasp Sand The quicker it runs Through your fingers... You demand of me more Than you should You ask of me things Impossible to give I tried... I tried... I swear, I did... You know I did... I'm still vainly trying... And I know that you gave in Gave up... Let go... The battle was over Before it begun And because of that The war was lost... And, now, it seems I've come undone Like the peices of yesterday... If I could fly from this place God, knows I would... I'd go somewhere Where no one knows me Where no ones ever seen my face Perhaps, the mountains A cabin By a glassy lake... Where silence is the only Company I'll keep... But, no... That wouldn't do The silence would just serve As a scalding reminder of you Of the silence In your eyes Of the silence Of your speech You... You who was built Made of nothing... And "Nothing comes of nothing..."

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