The Lies of Stories
My mistakes are heard in thunder
In the shivers and the fear
That comes with shaking a fragile box
With no worry that we might hear
The snowfall of a snowglobe
Now a melting avalanche
That rush of tidal destruction
To wash away our final chance
That we might live forever
Beneath an unbreakable dome
Where every breaking thunderclap
Cannot trouble
Cannot rip apart this fragile home
Where all my lives are fleeting
Even the ones that will live on
Far longer than the others that
Are dreams we didn’t know had gone
The ones that woke like startled children
From a life that shouldn’t be
To find that every world now left
Is a fresh new trial and deceit
To see that we won’t live forever
That we’ll only age and die
And the greatest things that never were
Are lost in tears we never cried
Tears that soaked the hardwood floors
Of every finite home we never built or grew
We were only ever our broken hopes
Our lovelorn lives
The tragic end and the final sigh
As our thunderstorm blew
With the rage of all our failures
With the pain of all our loves
The rain of all we thought might be
Crashing down as a truth we sought
To embrace the inevitable ending
The story that was never read
Before the familial fireplace
Where truths were never uttered
Never stuttered
Never said.
Because who wants to tell that story?
Who wants to see the hero die?
Who wants to read that final page
When you can tell of its biblical lies
That your heroes will go on forever
And battle each windmilling foe
In lands that they may never leave
With loved ones they’ll always know
It makes so much vital sense
Even as I type each word
To know the lie each story tells
For the sake of those who’ve heard
That all great things for now must end
And every hero goes
Into every darkest night
Towards an end we cannot know
There is no grandiose thunder
There is no lightning strike
Just the whimper of the weeping world
And great absence of every light
To greet everyone we’ve ever known
That have all fallen like the rain
Like every story ever told
We hadn’t the courage to say
Farewell, my fables and my friends
Farewell because this is it
The final page
The final journey
The final strokes of all our pens
Farewell to all my heroes, I fear this might be The End.