Close My Eyes

Sometimes I can close my eyes
And other times I can't
What is the point I ask
When the world is filled with cries

Everyone is a stranger
Don't trust anyone
Those eyes so remote
It screams danger

Burn my eyes
Let me unsee
The unseeable
Because everything I love
Dies
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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