Emptiness

Bordering on the edge of sanity

All these little fantasies

Double edged

Pushing me closer

While holding me from falling

There’s no winning

There’s just no winning with me

 

A story made up in my head

A story I’ll come to believe

A story that isn’t true

But it helps if I don’t know the truth

 

Pushing closer to a world

I know isn’t there

But it helps to reach out

Even if it means

Closing in on emptiness

 

Sometimes you think you have it all

Sometimes you can't see at all

Sometimes it just falls all around you

 

Brush the sleep from these tired eyes

Once I used to dream

Once I used to believe

Once I'm sure I had faith

Once

 

Pushing closer to a world

I know isn’t there

But it helps to reach out

Even if it means

Closing in on emptiness

 

Emptiness so much

 As far as the eye can see

All alone I swear I could go mad

But I'm already on the edge of sanity

Emptiness all around waiting to be filled

I have the stories, the imagination to make them fit

I have the stories to keep me sane

Here in the emptiness,

I believe in me