Chance dealt me a cold dark kiss
Planted it straight and long
I tasted nothing, except the abyss
Changing everything to wrong
So few people, church cold as metal
The things I had are gone
Aching tears, wilting petals
The things we should have done
Take away this photograph
It’s her hand I need to hold
No words to meet this epitaph
My heart once bought, now sold
The picture of my life thing
One that’s trodden down so small
Faltering now, without a wing
No soul in the world to call
On the edge of this, on the edge of me
Tilting, fraying, blowing, waving…
Blue stare, rapid, World ascending
In to the dizzy skies
Sick of giving, drained of lending
Morality never buys
Burning like a used up bullet
Melting mass in my slip stream
I couldn’t push, I had to pull it
Parachute this thin esteem
Clutching the empty space
Oxygen chilling veins
Miles by the second, sheer
Faster than it rains
My days blew out like a second sun
Peace came rushing with my last
Silence cried from my empty lungs
My future joined my past
Crushed up, flat, and in the dust
There’s not a second left
No music, flowers or a fuss
A stranger stood and wept
Phil Stewart 2011: Fictional