A Thousand Daggers

A Thousand Daggers Hobbes We progress towards stasis Each step forward brings a step back And engage in a standstill For each battle won another is lost We love but we question The questions burn into my mind As a thousand daggers pierce my heart Perplexed by the obvious For every fear I shed one grows anew Let down by our saviours For every rise there is a fall My soul weeps in agony A pain that renders me blind As a thousand daggers shatter my soul Freedom includes limitations A prisoner in freedoms grasp Life is contradiction Each end a beginning and each beginning an end To survive we must kill And it kills me inside As a thousand daggers break my spirit We fight for peace For every pleasure we suffer through pain Armies are blinded by leaders' vision The innocent are those with sense to disobey I'm blinded by the tears I've shed For my humanity, which was forfeit so long ago As a thousand daggers destroy my will My ties to a hypocritical humanity are severed, As a thousand daggers set me free