Worlds Gone Awry

Just another song I wrote. It's too long to put in text so here's a picture

Just another song I wrote. It's in pics cause I can't put all the words in a post

When the Darkness Calls

Intro:
In the silence where no heartbeat echoes,
Where breath feels borrowed and light won’t stay,
I kneel in the hush of the hollow world—
And wait for the voice that pulls me away.

Verse 1:
When the darkness calls me into silence,
And I cannot find my way home,
I hear a voice cutting through the quiet—
Whispering, “I’m here, my dear one.”

Verse 2:
When the shadows stretch across my spirit,
And the cold wind cuts through my soul,
There’s a warmth that rises from the silence—
A promise that I’m not alone.

Chorus:
You are the light in the hollow,
The peace in the pain I hold.
You gather the pieces I’ve buried,
And sing them back into gold.
Even when I fall apart,
You whisper love into my heart—
I’m never lost,
Not when you call me home.

Verse 3 :
When I tremble beneath my skin,
And my breath feels too loud to bear,
Your fingers trace the cracks I hide,
And find the strength that’s buried there.

Verse 4:
Now I rise, though my knees are shaking,
With your voice like a dawn-lit flame.
You remind me I’m still becoming—
That the fire hasn’t burned me in vain.

Chorus :
You are the light in the hollow,
The peace in the pain I hold.
You gather the pieces I’ve buried,
And sing them back into gold.
Even when I fall apart,
You whisper love into my heart—
I’m never lost,
Not when you call me home.

Bridge :
I’ve walked with ghosts that wear my face,
Let silence choke the light.
But even there, beneath despair,
You reached into the night.
A thread of gold—so thin, so true—
I followed it to you.

Chorus:
You are the light in the hollow,
The peace in the pain I hold.
You gather the pieces I’ve buried,
And sing them back into gold.
Even when I fall apart,
You whisper love into my heart—
I’m never lost,
Not when you call me home.

Final Outro :
So when the dark comes calling, soft and low,
And I forget the parts of me you know,
When the weight returns, and I fall once more,
To the floor I swore I’d left before—
I’ll listen close, past the ache, past the fear,
For your voice, quiet and near.

You say, “I see you still. I never turned away.”
And in that sound, I choose to stay.
Bound not by light, nor only pain,
But by love that breaks and binds again.
You are the song beneath my scars,
The night that held me when I fell too far.
And I, your dear one—lost and found—
Will always come
When I hear that sound.

What lingers in the reflections,
Where your gaze dares not to dwell?
What shadow stirs in silence,
At the tolling of the knell?
What tread that never falters,
Yet leaves no mark nor sound?
What breath behind your shoulder,
When no soul else is found?

Perhaps they wait in silence,
Beyond the veil of breath,
To rise when hearts fall quiet,
And flesh succumbs to death.
Then shall they creep and coil,
Where dream and terror wed,
To feast on whispered prayers,
Beneath your ashen bed.

The sunset burns in orange and green
Yellow and blue, but I’ve never seen.
Rainbows are supposed to be beautiful too
Yet not for me, but hopefully for you.

Strange though it may seem it is true
For my eyes see things differently from you
I know that the things I see are all wrong
Perhaps that’s why the darkness feels so strong

When I was younger and my eyes could see
I saw more colors in fall then just brown leaves
As I age the colors fade and grow strange
Just as I need glasses to see distance for a change

Perhaps if my world was more vibrant and bright
Then maybe I would find more hope in the light
Strange it is now to think of my youth
When the colors I saw were closer to truth
Now I look at the sky, it’s blue they say
Yet to my eyes all I see is grey

So as the sun sets on yet another day
I look around at my lonely world of grey
In a world of grey, black, white, and brown
These are the colors in which I drown
Yes, there are other flashes of color too
But mostly confused and rarely are true

So when I say that what I see makes me sad
Even though beauty you see makes you glad
Understand that what you see in the light
Looks far more bleak and grey in my sight

Here are the lyrics to the song I just posted by Nathan Evans. As well as the poem it inspired.

This song has hit me hard for so l9ng. . It influenced one of my poems. As someone who's struggled with mental health for my lifetime...

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When the sun no longer shines,
When the light within has died.
When hope no longer aligns,
And all your tears are cried.
Even then within that dark place
There is still yet a chance to find
A reason to raise a smiling face
And hold hope in your mind.
But, you have to let it grow,
You can’t let it consume you.
Hold hope deep in your soul
And peace will come to you.

Yeah I’m F.I.N.E
If F is for frightened
And I is insecure
N is for nervous
But I’m not too sure
E is well exhausted
To tell you the truth
But, yeah I’m fine
Is what I’ll say to you

Maybe instead I’m just O.K.A.Y.
That’s what I told someone yesterday
O is for overthinking
It’s just what I do
K is for koala cause
My mind is a zoo
A is for anger
At myself deep inside
Y is for the yelling
Of pain in my mind

These are the things I tend to say
I’ll tell you I’m fine or maybe ok
But deep down inside the battle rages on
You’ll never see it cause I keep my mask on

The days I tell the truth are when it’s getting too dark
The differences then are frighteningly stark
Beware when I say that I am not doing good
Cause then I can’t find that hope that I should
And when I look up and I say I’m still here
That’s when you know I’m fighting my fear

And, should I look at you with pain in my eyes
If I ask you to help calm the monster inside
Please don’t take advantage of the weakness in me
Help pull me out of the darkness and let me see
That there is so much more than this pain and fear
That when things are blackest there is still hope near

What do you do when the monster is inside?
Yeah, thanks a lot for pointing out it’s in my mind.
And, that’s the scariest place that it could hide
When my demons and angels are the same kind…

It always seems that I’m lost in a flood of thought
And when I escape I'm in a field of nought
It would be nice to be able to decide
If everything wasn’t always do or die

So how do you escape the monsters of your own mind?
What can you do when darkness bubbles up inside?
When you struggle everyday just to see a light
A reason to keep going and not throw the fight.

But, its funny cause people say “you seem okay.”
What the don’t understand is I’m not that way.
The face you see outside is a mask for everyday.
When I tell them what’s inside they don’t know what to say.

To write my grief, my dreams, my pain
And fold it into a paper plane
Set the wings and chart the course away
Reach back and loose it to stay
As it flies up, up, up and away

Take my life, my strife, let it float
On a perfect little origami boat
Set the sails chart a course away
Push it out, down the current to stay
And take my pain and fear sailing away

When the storm opens up and days are rough
When the pain inside it just won’t go away
The floodgates opens wide and you feel inside
When you just can’t find a reason to stay

Write it down on that little paper plane
And let it fly up, up, up and away
Send it out on that little boat
Let it sail out far, far, far away