Lest I Fade Away

 Lest I Fade Away

By BladeOfHope

How many moons

Have I wasted

Living in the dark?

I can't remember the last time I

Saw the light before now, yet

Here

I am

Saving you from

A fate worse than death

Trust me, I was there

I am you and you are me

But do you remember? No, of course

You never lived my fate. I

Saved you first, before

<p style="text-align: center;">They could take you.

<p style="text-align: center;">You remember them:

<p style="text-align: center;">Such kind and caring mentors

<p style="text-align: center;">But the fire in the midst of mist

<p style="text-align: center;">Contaminated your world

<p style="text-align: center;">Your world and mine

<p style="text-align: center;">Ours, one and the same

<p style="text-align: center;">Burning away all traces of

<p style="text-align: center;">Sanity and

<p style="text-align: center;">Hope

<p style="text-align: center;">I am glad for you

<p style="text-align: center;">You will not have to become me

<p style="text-align: center;">In this endless repeating circle of

<p style="text-align: center;">History

<p style="text-align: center;">Which has now been broken

<p style="text-align: center;">How many times have we lived it before and

<p style="text-align: center;">Never realized just what

<p style="text-align: center;">That dark world was?

<p style="text-align: center;">How many of us are

<p style="text-align: center;">Still trapped there and wondering,

<p style="text-align: center;">"Where is my savior?"

<p style="text-align: center;">Two at a time

<p style="text-align: center;">Picked off one by one

<p style="text-align: center;">Pairs and lovers and twins and littermates and

<p style="text-align: center;">Unrelated cats entirely

<p style="text-align: center;">Their picks are erratic

<p style="text-align: center;">And we were one of them

<p style="text-align: center;">Doomed to die in the

<p style="text-align: center;">Claws of such faithful

<p style="text-align: center;">Loyal

<p style="text-align: center;">Admired

<p style="text-align: center;">Honest

<p style="text-align: center;">Two-faced

<p style="text-align: center;">Scorned

<p style="text-align: center;">Abhorred

<p style="text-align: center;">Liars

<p style="text-align: center;">I want to tell you everything now

<p style="text-align: center;">Lest I fade away

<p style="text-align: center;">Before you know this:

<p style="text-align: center;">There is one thing I have

<p style="text-align: center;">Never told anyone

<p style="text-align: center;">A secret that will

<p style="text-align: center;">Change your life forever

<p style="text-align: center;">Still

<p style="text-align: center;">I wonder, though...

<p style="text-align: center;">Why was he never there?

<p style="text-align: center;">I never saw him.

<p style="text-align: center;">How did he escape...?