Sadness

 

Its just a pain that squeezes your heart and steals your breath

Makes you desperately gasp for peace.  

Quiet.  

And the next day it will be the same.  

And the next.  

Pain that never fully ends.  

Wounds that cannot fully heal.

Inexplicable torture of the soul

Worse than death

More consuming, more final 

The totality of love must embrace its futility

Farewell to the dream

Tie a ring around your heart

Watch it strangle the life out of love

Puncture lung and breath

Leave it gasping alone in the darkness 

I'm falling asleep in arms that cannot hold me
That have dropped me to my own devices
To my own self-torment