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Breaking Away

  It’s not too late for me to turn back

And run the other direction

Like hell on wheels

I’ll still be swerving from side to side

 

A great fire that has been burning within me

I cannot resist the urge to spread my ways

I am almost like a disease

Laying waste to those who deny what they cannot see

 

I, like a phantom, am

Weaving in and out of the darkness

Only to find still

I am alone

 

The shadow lands have been my home

For so long I cannot bear to remember the start

The darkness has been consuming me

For so long it has taken all but my heart

 

Within that fire where that is burning

I dare anyone to extinguish the blaze

You will fall, trance, in a haze

And fail like all those before you

 

It’s not that I cannot be beaten

I just cannot be broken

I cannot be disemboweled

By the hands of ignorance and the breed of hate

 

I won’t call myself a survivor

Because I have died many before

I won’t call myself a martyr

Because…I have died for nothing

…but isn’t that a calling in itself?

 

I know I have been placed on this rock for a reason

Whether it be called revolution or treason

I will do what I must

And use the fire from within to fuel the passions in my heart and soul

 

My mission is unknown to me

But I know it is important

 

My knowledge isn’t in vein

But why do I know what I do

And not know what to do with it

…that is a curse all in its own

 

 

So should I be the one to stray from the beaten path

Tha thas consumed so so many before me

And create, break through the norm?

Because so many would fight to keep the same, than to evolve…

 

So here I stand at my crossroads

Standing in the unknown

Facing the unknown

To venture into the unknown

 

But I know in the depths of my soul,

That fire, burning passion will unlock the locked doors

Bring light to the utter absence of light in the void of the unknown

Because deep inside…we are all a little unknown to your own self

Use it

And break away

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