Notes From A War - Stromkern

Notes from a war

Remembered from afar

The fire and the smoke

The battle and the scars

The promise that I broke

The promise that I stole

The reason that I hope

The why I never know

Riddle me once

Do I want to go on

Vison conjoined

In the shadow beyond

What can I say

Of the world I knew

If it isn’t for me Then it isn’t for you

What is this part of me What is this strange disease

This thing that’s killing me That I can’t touch

That I can’t see

It’s in the manifold

It’s in the path I chose

And in the bitter end

It’s all that I will ever know

Features revolve

And the evidence fades

Might as well see

If I can degrade

Nothin' I’ve known

Could ever have shown

Me what to expect

Or how to evade

Non-trivial

Perfectly civil

For all that I know

This thing

Could be killin' you

No reason, nothin' defined

Nothin' to lose

And nothin' to find

Gotta admit

I’m a little afraid

A little uncertain

Of how to engage

A little control

Goes an awful long way

A little perspective

A little too late

But for myself

If I could explain

Somehow had told you

The measure of pain

Something to fade

And something to see

Dreamer inside

And the sleeper is me What is this part of me What is this strange disease

This thing that’s killing me That I can’t touch

That I can’t see

It’s in the manifold

It’s in the path I chose

And in the bitter end

It’s all that I will ever know