[ WARNING: PRETTY INTENSE STUFF ]
The room so brightly lit
The people so painfully jolly
Me right here
Inanimate, ignored
As usual
All alone, in a corner...
A void
Black, sucking
Taking me
Destroying me...
The vortex - pulling...
My essence - ebbing...ebbing...
My inner self
Crying the tears
That spring to my eyes
Brimming...brimming with the salty water...
Hear this desperate cry - for help...
Hear this cry, mine, for a ray of hope...
Hear it... please!!
But, of course
Who can hear?
Who wants to?
And anyhow...
If hear they did
Who'd want to help?
And how indeed?
I shall be so bold
As to say
Madness, pure and true
Shall be better than this that I am...
Such my world suddenly dark
A hopeless despair setting in cruelly...
"Oh precious soul mine!
Oh come back hope!
Oh come back ambition!
Oh come back self!
Come back...come back..."
So I sob, "come back..."
Alas! My cries are in vain
"As is all that I do"
Whispers the devil that
Has taken hold of my soul...
See! See! See what I've become...
See how shameful I am...
Despair takes hold of me
Its grip; firm, merciless
And it vows to hold
For ever more...
And all I am able to do
Is cry and sob...till tears no more...
Save me... none can... I think...
~ another original.... from one of my bleaker days ~
