What kind of pain?
What kind of pain reaches beyond the boundaries,
of life and death and reality?
The pain that comes with sorrow and loneliness.
The hurt of bitter betrayal all,
Deep, wrenching inside me.
Despairing loss,
Desolation.
An empty void,
where love used to be.
The kind of pain that reaches out,
and pulls us back from nothing.
Keeps us from resting,
keeps the peace away,
until it is avenged.
The kind of pain
that you bring me now.
The pain that has brought me back.
The anguish that I feel at the mere thought of you.
The misery sweeps through me,
Like ebony wings.
Glistening in the moonlight.
I
Try to hold on
I
Try to reach for you with my gashed hands,
But I'm riven from you forcefully.
And I've slipped and fallen,
Lost again.
Pleading to be saved, be safe.
But you no longer hear.
You no longer feel me.
And as the crow flies ahead,
I close my eyes and fall back,
Falling,
falling,
to land in a brittle bitter bed
of desparation.
