We are broken

We are broken

Nothing remains

Untouched by darkness

Every night light fades

Leaving only shadows

There is no dancing

Without feeling

The rhythm in our bones

Where does it lie

When hounded by regret

There is deference

To the weight of guilt

Poisoning the soul

Beleaguered

By a belief

All deserve to die

For living life

In spite of all

That is known

We are complicit

For the sin

Of being born

How easy to be consumed

By the infection

The curse of innocence

Assiduously tended

Wantonly described

With lecherous intent

Framing us all in guilt

So recklessly accepted

From the start

Taking up the mantel

Of storm troopers

Leading an attack

On the purity

Of our own hearts

Allowing it to grow

Until we are but vessels

Self-fulfilled in corruption

Feeding a notion

Of regret

Confounded

By a concept of guilt

Believing it a cross

We were born to carry