this is where i sit like stone, knowing soon it shall be over, all balled up and all alone, wreathed in sickly crimson clover; in a corner cold and stark, where the pressure chokes my chest, my mind's eye fizzles into dark, i cannot eat nor find sweet rest.
i no longer see the pathways, where i have strolled past fields of pain, cloaked in shadowed sunless days, walking weary in the chilling rains; of torrid teardrops that always fail to fall, stuck inside behind my bloodshot eyes, between sight and dreams i scarce recall, haunted by the sounds of ghostly cries.
i no longer feel the passions, i had once did cling, for there no longer comes a need to rise, or open my mouth to sing. __