Stolen

Keeping your head above the sea
Is trying when you can't breathe
Like permanent walls you can't leave
Dreams stand still in your sleep
Pressure gathers around your heart
Fear pulls us apart
What lies between
The spaces of empty road
Weighed down
By life’s burdened load
What separates
Real from fake?
Who will decide
What is our fate?
Search empty mirrors
To see a face
Clear and translucent
We cannot find our place
Searching abandoned eyes
Lost within the rut
Stay or leave
Sit awake in the dark
Lose yourself
Or take on a new you
What are we now
But a figure of what we once knew
Unhinged smiles and empty tears
What is the limit and for who
What will it take
To keep the masses subdued
The stinging in our eyes spreads
As we lose the will to breathe
They awake from sleep
And take what we can’t see
Awake robbed of what we can’t feel
Pin point what they took
Hidden around cobwebs and corners
Try again take another look
What have we missed
To make us null and void
Pushing through an empty shell
To see the real you
Whisper’s we can’t hear
Give us answers to what’s lost
Where we went wrong
And what it will cost
A market of truth
Beneath the burdened streets
It will cost your soul
To buy back
What they once stole