Darkness spends it lonely wings
on the high horizons of our hopes and dreams.
As long shadows grow, now they're fading,
in the twilight of our hopeful waiting.
The tide is rising.

O girl, you're needed tonight.
Behind your eyes there's a light.
Beautiful girl. Do what you will,
I'm not leaving tonight.

Under the weight of a clear endless sky.
It seems like we waste all our time making time.
I could spend all of mine inside your eyes.
Do what you will, I'm believing tonight.
I've left behind all the "whens?" and the "whys?".
Seems like I waste all my time making rhymes.
I could spend all of mine inside these lines.
Though I taste my tears, there is victory.
Love has conquered fear, truth will carry me.

House of Heroes - Metaphor in Parenthesis

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So my dad came home really, really drunk after my last submission. I was flustered, and felt.. I dunno. I'm still not happy. I hate that people took my look and thoughts and turned it into their own, only to make me feel terrible when I called them out on being plagiarists. [ That seems to happen a lot when the truth is revealed. ]

Anyway. So dad was smashed in more ways than I could count. Sat me down and gave me his usual "I love you more than anything" talk. But this time it was different because he went on a tangent of how he was proud of me, and how he was behind every stupid thing I do and did.

So I cried for the first time in years in front of my father.

And for once, it wasn't because I was afraid of him.

The green blob is oz. Yay.

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Artwork // Kieth // Txin // Oz rendition © Myself.
Lyrics © House of Heroes.