I Fall

In the darkness he does hide
There he beckons me
Inside is where he resides
Inside my lonely heart

Always calling me
Trying to get me to sign
Says he wants to free me from pain
Although I know that is not true

His offer he says is on the table
Take it or leave it
Asks me if I want the world
Do I want to live pain-free

Tells me that I shall be a god among man
But there’s a price
Only a wee one
Something money does not govern

Temptation like none other
A thirst that needs quenched
His offer could be that nectar
But the price is so high

The greed inside me cannot resist
It whispers to me at night
Tells me to let go
All will be well

My heart pounds
It aches with a thousand pains
I know where it does lie
Though that’s where I die

Hands so cold as I prick my finger
Blood drips to the ground
His smile so wide as I sign
And it is done

As he promised the pain is gone
But I am not happy
All smiles have vanished
As I am left with only emptiness

And emptiness is all there shall be
For a man can only feel
Now I am no man
Just a vacant shell

I wear the disguise of what once was
A broken man
A lonely soul
But soul that is lonely no longer

That trickster does now hold
The very essence of me
What more can I give
Nothing, merely to fade away