Worn Grin

Memories flow like ink on bare skin
Slowly dripping dry and wearing thin
All these years that I have yearned,
Yet still I stand wearing a grin

All these years where I've been left to burn
Where it's no one's but my own concern
This is the way life has been,
Where sincerity won't return

Quietly oppressed and kept alone in thought
where days melt away,
In a broken mind that's left to rot

With sanity slowly slipping away
Memories will fade,
Until all's lost in a shadowy haze

But tell me why I'm left to perish here alone
WIth subtleties lost in a perplexed and damned soul

And though with tears in these eyes I still hold my grin
Because through these complexities I'm still human

But who's to come around and act as a savior
To save further dying embers or fading stars?

Years I've tried to act sincere and be kind
But shadows hold fast,
As loneliness seeps in this broken mind

Within the silence is safe and less grim
With sanity lost,
All that's left of me is a worn grin