Total Darkness

Hope is lost.

Total Darkness

I see no doves

for under this leaden sky

happiness is not meant to be mine.

I have danced for decades

to the tunes that others played.

I have prostrated my earthly

self at the feet of ‘virgins’

who breathe as Sirens

with the intent of Satan’s charm.

And here I lie, buried in cold earth

that cloys upon my skin

and sucks the warmth from my soul.

The casket in which I am imprisoned

is lined with deceit

so that I may not rise up again

in sunlight’s resurrection

to feel the warmth upon my skin.

 

26/10/14

Author's Note

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

that vampirish feeling...being sentenced to life imprisonment with our memories...

i hear this one...loves loved, loves lost, too many to count...

they took my emotional blood, drained it...

now i am working on getting it back...how better than being a vampire of sorts.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

And sucked dry we lack the wetness of integrity and become the brittle emotional desert like those who have cast us into the wilderness. Thank you Jacob.