How It Goes

You try so hard
Against temptation you stand your guard
But all you gain is a soul scarred

Everything you knew is falling
They can hear your soul calling
The sound of the scrapes of its nails from crawling

"An A for effort" some say
You scream back to them "nay"
As the sky and all you know turns to ash and gray

It was like a nuclear fallout
Now stumbling in a world full of doubt
Living in a world of things you can live without

Tears stream down your cheek
Words jumbled together as you speak
Showing that you are naught but cowardly and weak

You're me now
Voice alone
Sleeping on a new nail bed
Like a flashlight on but lost

Soon you learn
That we all have to burn something
Because that's simply
How it goes