The very vengeance this life delivers.
It crumbles your being into a pile of ash.
Then the loss of breath, gasping.
Grief.
Shattering, distracting, mocking.
It. Kills. Me.
Her icy fingers run through my bones,
Giving me a jolt of cheer.
Escape is drawn-out yet near,
The only thing left is that fear
And the night's black.

A revived love is the hardest to
abandon. Just when it disappears, when
you think it's gone, it erupts with
complete surprise, causing electric
volts to unearth what the mind
buried.

An exhausted life that began
Has birthed space, bereft of man.
We journey on, we journey far
But never as any could plan.

Let's explore further; raise the bar
And please, oh please, wish on that star.
If you ever reach up to space,
May it's memory never mar.

I long to travel to that place
To let it shine upon my face
Before I lie beneath that stone
And at long last give up this race.

For when I go to the unknown,
I can rest on that milestone.
A world so new, I lie alone,
Finally here now, on my own.

bare, bare, like a midwinter tree
evermore hollow, forever absent.
an illusion of substance, only a dream.
I thought it was there, but nay,
you have left me, empty.
I cannot believe those lies, those truths.
Persisting through the rain, you
were my umbrella. Lost now, in the fog,
I'm blind beyond my hands.
Clothe me in that presence,
that I may shake off loneliness.
I refuse to witness pain. I wander
away. Wistful, overwhelmed with
hiraeth. I've been here many times
before. A wave of déjà vu
crashes into my awareness, replacing blood
with ice. I'm fighting, pushing
you away. I don't want to go here again.
Can't you open your deaf eyes, your blind
ears? You are shut off from my existence.
It must be goodbye.
A sky full of stars, innumerable like these goodbyes.