As the night darkens
my light fails to cease
Wearing terribly upon
this fragile heart
...but still continue,
as eyes begin to droop
Like the candle
I too begin to fade
Burdened and beaten
growing tired of this enslaving crusade

Fights over petty matters
past issues feel most futile
Beg that I suffer
those pleasures again
..for a glimpse
of the other plain
But as she tempts me
resist I her grasp
I dare not indulge in her paradise
until I have complete this task

My apologies go out
to those who I had ignore
Or to those I 'd offended,
bitten with no recourse
Victim to poor time
and those addictions most pure
Have left me with nothing
but my fingers blister hoard

And apologise I ought
for the neglect I've caused
Fear not, the reason
be not of another
These stacks just spare me
no breath or time,
my isolated,
flowering,
lover.