Last night I couldn't sleep, due to mental wanderings. I thought about all sorts of things, but one really stuck in my head. I couldn't fall asleep because my feelings wouldn't quiet enough for it. So I wrote this poem to get those feelings out. Once I spewed my troubles out on paper, I was able to fall asleep.
Fallen hero, fallen hero
Just a shadow of the past
Fallen hero, fallen hero
Don't make our sorrow last
Once you forged the way ahead
I followed in your wake
You led me by your good example
Your sincerity and faith
I always thought that you'd be there
To show me where to go
Memories of the better you
Haunt me from long ago
Fallen hero, fallen hero
Will you ever rise again
Fallen hero, fallen hero
You were once my closest friend
It wouldn't be so bad, I think
If you hadn't walked so tall
But now youve shrunk to a pale shadow
Compared to yourself you've grown so small
The tears I've shed on your behalf
Aren't the only ones
For all parents will always weep
For their fallen sons
Fallen hero, fallen hero
Will you ever rise again
Fallen hero, fallen hero
You were once my closest friend
Once a hero, still you are
Help me show the way
I cannot lead the way you did
I don't know how to display
I can't lead the line that follows us
I'm not the same as you
I need you to stand and carry on
I cannot fill your shoes
You've fallen but I'll help you up
If you will only see
The life that stretches out for you
The man that you can be
Fallen hero, fallen hero
Just a shadow of the past
Fallen hero, fallen hero
Don't make our sorrow last
See the hands stretched out to you
Calling you back to your place
Don't abandon us to carry on
Without our brother's face
Rise again and lead again
I don't want you to only be
The example of what I shouldn't do
A ship lost to the sea
You can be so much more
Than a hero fallen to the floor
Pick yourself up, fly again
I know you can, I know you can
You left us once but you can come back
Rise, and fly again
Fallen hero, fallen hero
Just a shadow of the past
Fallen hero, fallen hero
Don't make our sorrow last
Composition wise, I know it's rough and it doesn't exactly flow, but this is more or less what I was feeling.
1 comment:
that's heavy stuff. it's good though. i hope you feel a little better.
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