Binding Cycle

For us, I’d given everything
Union-circle, Binding Ring.

Their termination by your hand
Our blackened skies mourn their demise
And you begin to understand.

Taken by the ebb and flow
Tear in the seam, flaw in the will
Sinking until, just like a dream--
Sealed beneath the ice and snow

Rescued by the summer suns
Dirty little secret wakes
Your every denial, said with a smile
Relinquished by naïve snowflakes,
Defeated by a thousand guns

A song is carried on the wind
Of hope and fear whispered, ear to ear,
Of silenced cries and sundered souls
Of painful tolls and endless why’s
All once held dear, destroyed with a sneer
The beginning, middle, and end.

The walls shatter, the road returns
Throughout the glade, a promise made
A darkened binding of a different sort
Of shadows and pain, of blood and disdain
And their faces contort, the truth reminding-
All joy must now fade, all light turn to shade...
The union now in fire burns