Awake

So I woke up from my nightmare, cooler than I've ever been
No more claws out from the shadows, No more tormenting within
Darker days from you retreat, here comes my sun, where have you been
I thought my world outside forgot, For too long light I had not seen

I shriveled up in corners, the hidden holes within my heart
Blew out the lights from burners, recurrent dreams shred me apart
Optimistic hearts and wishes, were all that nightmare fishes
I felt I was a pauper, but here I dwelled in riches

And there you called me evil, my naive heart hole-riddled
And there we sat in memories, fingers entwined and fiddled
And there I remembered the romance, yet you see only violence
And here I offer kindness, for justified hate's blindness

The scabs fell off with your words, they tried to cut I'd healed
For here I stand with my sword, you can't hurt how I feel
I'm rising from the wretchedness, no more living in sadness
I've long gone from the wickedness, to return would be madness

And you'll never receive hatred here, but only calm and silence
And you may hate me over there, destroying all forgiveness
And time and age may harden hearts, and they may blossom kindness
And till our separate graves we lay, my soul shall reek of goodness