all that's left for me

it is time to say goodbye,
it is time for the end

no more happiness found
now that I am free of sin

it's a lonely walk down
an empty street,
I can't seem to care

and when I reach
out my hand,
no one is there

left to embellish
the past with taunts
of returning to the start

and making war
out of love
became my perfected art

only bridges burned
just beyond
the insanity of yesterday

a voice
shouting out
that has nothing left to say

so much damage,
so many battlefields
with hearts left broken

so easily scoffed at
the madness in the words
I have spoken

the keys won't work
on the door,
my soul is out of business

my pain
is so great that my
damnation is listless

only a few
more steps to
a journey of finality

the soft kiss
of death is all
that's left for me

Misunderstood

the race began and was called off

while I was still

barreling down the track

all that was taken

while demons were raping my soul

I can no longer get back

gestures mimicked in shadows

showing the distaste of embarrassment

amongst their righteous indignation

the darkness drawing in

the truth within me that

there is no chance of salvation

cauterizing the open wound

with numbness

I only seemed to make matters worse

an unspoken abomination

finding no pity and no shame

but still trying to unwind the curse

hoping that

this legend of misery

teaches a lesson

and those who hear it listen well

bringing life into this world

without nurturing

is nothing

but a nightmare in a living hell

or could it be

that I was just born no good

somewhere, something,

must be misunderstood

within the suffering

amongst the darkness

the silence was the loudest sound

in the last few days of time

life became unbearable and

there was no one to be found

in the last few thoughts of my mind

I saw life

without me for a while

in the last few moments of life

I let go of the pain

and began to smile