abandonedamerica.org: i am (part ii)

i am (part ii)
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i am everything that you hate
i am your bitterness and your despair
i'm all the ghosts that you help create,
everything that you wish weren't there.

i am the condemnation in sleep's stormy release
i am every collapsing star in the sky
i'm the limitless reaches of spiritual disease
i am the proof everything always dies.

i am every day you've tried to cry
and i am every tear that won't fall
i am the darkness, the eternal lie
i am the secret that's kept from us all.

while you may see false hope that brightens your day
i am inevitable failure's distinction:
the ache that i am will never fade away
long past this crumbling shadow's extinction.

you can tear down the bricks that once made my walls,
you can bulldoze every last remnant inside
you can blot out every trace that i existed at all,
but the truth i am won't be denied.

so shutter your windows, and bolt up your doors
one day the waters will burst from their dam
you can ignore me, it doesn't matter any more
nothing changes the fact that i am.

the remains of a children's hospital in fuller state school,
which was closed due to gross abuse and negligence

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