I wrote a beautiful song
With a sweet soft melody
Said that it was my life
But the truth is it was just me
Tapping out a heartbeat
Praying loved ones
Wouldn’t leave me
While I was busy
Already leaving

This poetry gave me wings
So I flew like Icarus
Wanted to touch the sun
And feel her burning lips
Got just close enough
To know that still love exists
Before she melted me

I love to write
But now my computer screen
Is going in and out
It keeps on flickering
And my inner voices
Are all bickering
Hope is triggering
My fear of dying

I got one foot in Olympus
And the other in the river Styx
Praying for some old prose glory
Hoping my poetic story
Will still exist
When the rest of me
Is whited out permanently