Who is the man who falls?

Why do we fall? How do we get up again? How do we forget the nightmare pain of impact? Why do we fall again?

All I remember is that I am falling - I have been for almost an eternity. The ghosts of someone else's dream surround me as a plummet towards what must be hell.

I am faceless. I am nameless. I suffer someone else's punishment am gulty of someone else's crimes.

I want to forget to never wake again. I want to stay there...
there, in the dark - where there's nothing
to keep me in or keep me out

I want to forget - to fall...
never wake again
I want to stay there...
there in the dark

Falling always falling
always broken by the fall

Why do we fall? How do we get up again? How do we forget the nightmare pain of impact? Why do we fall again?

We learn to get up again
We learn to forget
We learn to make our faces new each morning - to remember our smiles

And we become something else

I had a name - but it is forgotten
I had a life - but I deny it now
I ignore the people I once called friends
I pass by the places that used to be home
I pretend I am elsewhere - in someone else's life, someone else's nightmare - feeling someone else's pain ... but it is my own.

Forgetfulness is my mask