Summer Days

I yearn to relive those old summer days
When I basked in the sun's golden rays
I thought this feeling could never end
No one could see what was around the bend
The winter came and I turned cold and bitter
The color and smile from my face did wither
I felt the chains weigh down on my chest
and even with these pills, I couldn't rest
I'd close my eyes and resort to my mind
where happy memories and dark thoughts bind
Leaving me, a shell of my former self
placing my heart on a old, dusty shelf
next to your portrait and some rose petals
where a pile of ashes calmly settles
watching the world go by around me
looking for faces of people I will never see
letting go of the things I loved most
wandering the world like a ghost
I yearn to relive those old summer days
and forever find my way out of this dark maze