Fade Away

The moonlight rains upon my pain,

Testimony to the tears that

Pry themselves loose from my eyelids.

Slowly whispering, softly, gently,

Everything won’t be okay.

Could I drink your innocence?

Make myself pure,

Of hatred, of lust, of rage and envy.

Salvage me

From the shackles of time,

Of pain, of norms;

From me.

Your love smothers me,

Suffocates me, makes me want to leave.

And yet, I hold on.

Your touch awakens the pain

In my dying soul.

Could I be sane again,

Till my soul bleeds itself dry

Of all the pain?