Layer by layer

Solace at every corner
The fire that soothed all souls
The faces of liberation
From agony to be told.

The grand design of greatness
Smeared with greed
Worms from the promised words
To lace the endless feed

Behind, the cries, there lies, conceding to subscribe (to the end)
Where the flag, flies high, upon this bloodstained night

Fixed on a point that spurns compassion
My kaleidoscopic death in segments
Powerless...the thorns of hollowness
That spilled enough blood to drown regret
Moments of silence that welcomed eternal laughter

Fixed on a point that spurns compassion
My kaleidoscopic death in segments

Dire ominous extravagance
Brews the storm of turbulence
A vision made for eternity
Now withers in the flames of destiny
The face of defeat thus scorned
Awaiting death from the endless mourn
Layer by layer,
Breath after breath,
Cometh the bitter hour of rest

Upon my knees I fall,
With hands up to the sky
Ashes on ashes,
Blood on blood
Hope runs out of time
Facing the hollow
A flat line that is so near
Actions headed for nothing
An afterlife of guilt to fear

Layer by layer, the city's on fire
Behold the coming of the perennial disaster
Layer by layer, the city's on fire
Behold the spawning of the colossal disaster.