Free me from these chains of darkness
and shine a light onto my gut-wrenched heart
clobbered into a ball of loneliness and foreshadowing
my future dusty shelf
filled with all the bonds that I've broken
and this light will finally reach the end
of this obstructed tunnel
free me from this never-ending spiral
deeper and deeper into this dreadful womb
the wounds on my beloved body
like knives drenched in some cold-hearted fear
shattering the glass wall that separates me from
whatever beings that are walking in the outside world
crawling up my scrawny limbs
wiggling into the orifices of my ear
as the blood of sorrow tearfully leaks out
of my demonic eyes
slithering on the gravelly floor
as if chasing a shadow filled with hope
yet I will never belong in that fearful place
like the birds of heaven gliding through
the sea-blue skies of invisible clouds
as I scream with a spirit of defeat
"where are the clouds?"
"where are the clouds?"
"where am I in this world of pain?"
the scars of love root me into the soil
like an earthly tree of mother nature
nurturing me into a human of humans
as if I were a wild ape of regret
but what will this world say to me
when they witness the mind of a fragile self
weak, miserable
like a clawless sloth sleeping all day
on a branch made of sand
lifting itself up onto the thick air
slowly choking on the scent of wisdom
as the stuttered words leave its mangled lips
like the musical notes of peace radiating from the
prison cell of reprise
of a former drunk state of mine
a peephole to a mind
lost in space
as I slowly walk away
you stop to hold my hand
and talk to me
and talk to me
and talk to me
and there is nothing I can do
but release all this tension
these emotions
and as I kneel and beg for forgiveness
all my pains
flow away into the deep blue sea of love
onto an island
far far away
never to be seen again.
