Defeated

I STAND HERE DEFIANT
SILENT
YET DEFEATED
I PULLED YOU IN
PUSHED YOU OUT
FOUND THAT YOU WERE THE ONE I NEEDED
THE TIME PASSES
BECOMING HOURS IN ONLY A BLUR
DAYS FALL AWAY
A MONTH NOW EVEN MORE
THE MIRROR LAUGHS AT MY HAUNTED FACE
VISIONS LIKE GHOSTS
NOW LINGER IN ITS PLACE
MEMORIES LIKE PARACHUTES
ONCE SEEMED SO HIGH
FALLING TO THE EARTH BY GRAVITY
WITH WHICH ITS ETERNALLY TIED
A CHANCE OF REDEMPTION
IS WHAT THIS CROOKED MAN BEGS
A SWELLING IN MY CHEST
A KNOCKING IN MY LEGS
I WALK ALONE TODAY
BUT AGAIN NOT BY CHOICE
I DREAM DISTORTED COLOR AND SOUND
AWAITING YOUR SWEET VOICE
THE MORNING COMES FAST
TAKING ME BY SURPRISE
HERE ALONE AGAIN
A TEAR SWELLS IN MY EYES
HOPE IS AN OLD CROSS
THAT I MUST NOW BARE
TO GIVE YOU UP
I WANT NEVER TO DARE
YOU WERE THE ONE I ALWAYS NEEDED
YET I STAND HERE
DEFIANT
SILENT
NOW DEFEATED