Max's Song

Happiness you wore
Like a little child
Swinging by a thread
Dipped in red and wild

Happiness was caught
Shot and split and styled
Dressed for handsome death
Fatal and defiled

I remember you
When you were alive
Carrying out, in blue
Rinsing out your eyes

Drinking in the dark
Mother, Father out
Hoarding hellish heart
Foaming at the mouth

Funny how a man
So quickly overrun
Turns weak given the choice
Falls short against the gun

Hopefulness I wore
Like when I was young
Hiding from the truth
Naive of damning love

Hopefulness was caught
Severed, choked, and stung
Prepped for certain death
Alive only to hunt

I remember me
When you were alive
Eating up the ruse
Emotion in the eyes

Sleeping in the dark
Restful by the night
Leave it all together
Way past ninety five

Funny how it hits
Blindly to the mind
Forgotten how to sleep
Remember how you died

Happiness we wore
Like a little child
Swinging by a thread
Dipped in red and wild