Sorrow. Engulfs the air of childhood
The heavy boots of oppression
Fall on the hopes of humanity
Thrust into the mud of devastation
Surrounded by the noise of hate

We stumble in the darkness
Finding our feet only to be crushed again
It was not the powerless hands
But the fading of aspirations
The thought of a future that didn't exist

What hope can live in imaginations
That are driven into the abyss
A place, a name, shatters strength
From the very body that once lived
In the neighbourhood of friends

The breaking of hope in innocent minds
Through methods detested in the future
Though darkness covered, light must rise
If hate be the driver of nightmares
Let hope be the carriage of dreams

Finding the light through the darkness
The path of hope through the stains of mud
To rise and stand above the noise
Rebuilding a hope in humanity
Defeating the horrors of hate

In the eyes of a past that can't be unseen
Glistens a future built on a purpose
Where precious memories could never be taken
And new visions of happiness develop
In every flash of this fresh new light

Shadows may fall behind us in length
As we stand in the path of light
We shall not forget the past
But we shall build a future
Banishing the darkness by finding the light.