Even as my house burns away,
I don't cry out for your help.
Because you are too dear to me

And I don't want you to burn.

Houses build of secure wax,

Now lying in a molten white rot.

I will take this heat, my friend

Because I don't want you to burn.

The warm words have worn off so easily,
The gloss of joy has now been removed.
Cold winter has dawned upon us both
Gone is the music to which we grooved.

We suffer because we don't converse,
Because we don't meet and share smiles.
But you should know that I'll be there
Whenever you have to travel harsh miles.

Today, this fateful night, I stand alone

As waves play peacefully on the river.

The wounds of battles past do heal

On this bitter-sweet night I shiver.

I see behind the clothes I left behind

I peeled them harshly off my skin.

No matter how much the pain seemed

I left behind the maddening din.

Who was once a part of me I loved

More than my own earthly existence,

Is tonight a distant memory blurred

Despite my heart's constant resistance.

The words are as harsh as always

Never the ones I sought and gave.

Never did the wagging tongues stop

Never did come the warm embrace.

But the pillars of strength did stand

The healers were out in full strength.

Every blow was matched by a blow

A blow of love that goes any length.

In this last lap of the last chapter

My body waddles through the sand.

Tonight, on this fateful night, I say

Accept, of peace, this solitary hand.

The neat and organised, soon will fall.

When the whiff of adventure wafts

Through the air like revived passion

And when the kid gloves come off.

There will be some blood and some gore

The old heroes shall either faint or die.

New monsters will be born in the minds

And present peace will seem like a lie.