Facing the Thousand - Light This City

In the distance

They are circling

I watch them go around and around

Never tiring

The one near death is hypnotized and closes it’s eyes

One last time

Patiently they wait for that perfect moment to descend

And pick to pieces a once healthy

Body of passion and life

It’s me or it’s you and I get to decide

Which one lives and which one dies

Where and when

How and why

Here and now

A vital organ plucked out

Because I need to survive

Self-sacrifice is suicide

Circling with occasional cries

Of delight

Of anticipation or remorse for nature’s ceaseless patterns

Binding every being to the same sick fate

What unfortunate creature must suffer

Watching a thousand deaths spiral slowly towards it

It’s me or it’s you and I get to decide

Which one lives and which one dies

Where and when?

How and why?

Here and now

A vital organ plucked out

Because I need to survive

Self-sacrifice is suicide

What unfortunate creature must suffer

Watching a thousand deaths spiral towards it

With the will but not the strength to move on

From this place

Just close your eyes

Just breathe your last sigh

Just let go of this life

Just close your eyes

Just breathe your last sigh

Just let go

It’s come now

Your time

How do you want us to die

With regrets rotting away all of my success

With longing eating away at my fulfillment

Must every self-interested act inflict

Devastation on another

Would you rather rot or be picked to pieces still alive

How do you want us to die