plead for the pain to be gone,
yet beg to feel the hurt.
tie an anchor to your ankle
to hold you down,
yet gasp for air as it drags you deeper and deeper into the ocean.
admire the shimmering waters
glistening as the waves
ripple across the vast seas.
beautiful sparkles,
ethereal and lucid.
slowly but surely,
the surface glaciates.
the iciness spreads
and soon you are submerged
in the piercing frost,
frigid and forbidden,
biting your flesh,
bit by bit.
it begins to cut,
hard and deep.
right through your skin
to your bone,
and in to your marrow
where it ***** your life;

you are lifeless.
empty.
there is nothing left but a corpse,
drained
of the beauty, love, peace and happiness
it never possessed.
silently shrouded
by a white veil
as the evanescent wails
fill the barren air.
flowers adorn
the pale cloth to cloak the
foulness hidden beneath.
but they soon wither,
as promised,
beauty gone forever;

for forever is an empty promise,
and death is the evaded truth.