Paying for your Past

This one is kinda dark, its hard to explain it... infer your own meaning.

“Paying for your Past”

Standing aimlessly by

While towers fall

Families cry

And victims crawl

The massacre plain to see

Still frozen in your tracks

Eyes perceiving blindly

No remorse, turn your back

Sever the ties that restrain you

Compassion weighs you down

They neglected through and through

Abandon this newly forsaken town

Let ashes stain skin

Carry the memoir

Until marks run thin

Then journey to begin again

Travel swiftly

Leaving traces as you pass

Each new place a lesson

Evolving with each tread on grass

Forget that city

They don’t deserve your pity

Destinations that mold who you are

Are more worthy by far

Try to reach the ocean

Crave a salty tongue

Let anticipation carry

A body on the run

Disappointment will kill

And hope, effaced, will cease

On the surface an oil spill

Engulfed in rancid seas

Lungs valiantly fight

Limbs flailing in the scum

Maybe this wasn’t right

Keep in sight the sun

Struggle for buoyancy

Gasp in accepted defeat

When a civilian wanders by

Looking heavily beat

This boy, he’s a stranger

No friend to you

Has his own wounds to mend

What would you have him do?

Desperate calls still cry

Rising in pitch and persistence

With the realization of a fear to die

Cursing the boy’s resistance

The reality is you’re drowning

Paying for your past

And with time you’ll be sinking

Ignorance finishes last

I never told you what to do

Do not place the blame on me

These commands were your own

You just needed your eyelids ripped open to see