Kintsugi | Golden Tears, Golden Fears, the Gilded Sword

When the sun shone I melted in its gaze

It's pristine touch elates me to no end

Yet when I look down towards the land I see it razed

The grounds I see melted, no animals I see it graze

This is the world I live in, the world I see

I live in a broken home, and I couldn't flee

With those around me like melted sand

Clear as glass my words can't find their land

I spoke to them but they cannot hear

The words that broke me, the emotions I fear

I shook them, I hit them

But they cannot wake

I cannot blame them

I don't want them to break

So I stay silent in yearning

For someone who can find me burning

In my own fear, in my own skin

I didn't think I'll be abandoned by my own kin

So here I stand in molten sand

My feet burning, ash on my hands

I can't think, I can't run, I can't hide

The present has come to kill me, the sun by its side

No amounts of running can make me see

The bright future ahead of me

I can see those smiling while burning

I ignore them, this isn't living

I fell down on my knees, the pain I feel kept me writhing

A single man in the ashes of the world

Burning in the principles of the old

I feel the lone music through my veins

it tells me the past, the future, and the present in vain

I stand on ash and broken bone

A fire burns in me, telling me to go home

The golden winds, and gilded springs

I hold on to the aureate heartstrings

Of my auspicious spirit who became my sword

Who stood so long under the crowning heat of the worl