PTSD lyrics

Straying afar into the clouds

The sun setting the day's pace

Winds blow that sting to see

Tears fall in sodden stillness

No solace there could be

In shadows and its sorrows

A place where a noise, a smell

Returning back, a world to tell

Calamity giving way to calm

Tragedy to transient tranquility

A procession of borne boundless dead

Ever ensuing in censured silence

Heads bowed in shifting somnolence

Sacrificed for freedom's wake

A place where ideals fail us all

Walking the circuit's dismal path

Only to discover the weary way back

To the land where blood flowed

Cries ebbed, and lives ceased

Until all that is left is silence

These worlds are deceptive dualities

Undistinguishable by night and day

The vigilance of every existence

It's merciless denial of slumber

Stealing life's days and joys

There are no tears shed in envy

For tired eyes that saw too much

The heart that aches so very deeply

The mind that clenches crippling memories

And every breath affirms this pain

No mother to sing soothing songs

Only bottles for forgetting the thirsts

Substances sought to numb the pain

If only for a while, just compounding

Life's struggles, still more complicating

Questioning all that is said sacred

Surviving one inferno for another

Lost as a lone sentry steadily standing

On a perimeter without relief, nor rest

Outnumbered and overwhelmed, waiting...

Straying afar into the clouds

The sun setting the day's pace

Winds blow that sting to see

Tears fall in sodden stillness

No solace there could be