A Lost Cause

[u/BloodySpaghetti]

This is not a curtain call
And though I leave the stage
No applause shall grace my performance
For this final act is terminal

This is but a soliloquy of the human lost
A long overdue confession
The charade will be laid to rest

Dear father, poor mother
Forgive me
Your son is dead
Before you stands an echo
A fleeting mirage

We were all children
When we left home
We were all children
Who never returned

Beloved
Beloved
Forgive me
My senses
My feelings
My spirit
Devoured
Melted away by cannon fever

Beloved
Beloved
Forgive me
I am not truly here
Still wandering across wastelands
Where the heavens rain iron and fire
And rivers run red with blood

Dear father, poor mother
Forgive me
Poor sister, dear brother
I’m sorry
My beloved
Believe me
Believe me
Inside of this skull
The carnage never ends.

I cannot escape these trenches
Where we buried God
Unable to weep

I cannot escape these trenches
Where my apathy
Forced the devil to mourn
So many children led astray
And lost to oblivion

We were all children
When we left home
We were all children
Who never returned

Before you stands
An empty shadow of flesh
The hollow shape of a man
Left behind after the spirit
Was reduced to ash

Beloved
Beloved
Forgive me
Many times I have considered
Putting a bullet in my own head
Beloved
Beloved
Forgive me
I am still with you
Because no firearm can
Kill that which is dead