Creeping forth are images distorted by time Nights of youthful glory, the defining moments As a fading gallery of someone else's life The world's beauty elevated from this mire of concrete The cold stares of this wretched city, I am all this madness amplified As the story fades Dearest memory to remnant of grey What was once all, now the weakening life source I'm a passenger, an ember of a different time Has it all been said and done? Have we conceded to what's been lost and won? In my mind I still roam, radiant and pure Desperate to find a way to dream again