A Song for the Lost

Walk the empty streets
Wind howling in the trees
The only sound to reach my ears
Are lonely love songs sung in tears
A car speeds by, lights ablaze
But I ignore that hound of hell
The silent step that falls
Upon a ground soaked in lovers’ tears

The chill of nightfall
Burns across my cheek
Like a stinging slap from a heart of steel

I walk along those lonely streets
And hear a song that’s haunting me
A tune that’s sung a million times
Of unanswered questions and half-spun lies

Wandering this empty town
Filled with ghosts of long ago
Thoughts that fill pages of unused books
To be read with tired eyes