Hurt

Arms extended
Tracing trails of fear
And callous
In wide arcs
Denying
Shame defying
Passing on
Into the next
Recompense
Becoming the host
Absorbing infliction
Relenting misery
Viciously cycle
Touching the core
Caring not
Spirit debased
Into the next
Passing on

Daddy Away

Could not go back
I try every day
The blindness devours me
Brings me down into its grave
Holds me there
Cold and alone
The terror of my choices
Screaming the dread
In my bones
Turning cold
Could not go back
To escape the numb
To pain instead
Just fo feel
Something again
I'm missing your life
Your thoughts
You're becoming what
I didn't realize you've
Always been
Person
Little man
Could not go back
I would not wish
This fate
This aweful state
On your precious shoulders
These confining walls
This confining
State of mind
Hope and dread
In silence
Bring me to my knees
Grasping for you
If but only
For a better fate
The cleaning
Of this slate

Tides

Longing for breath
Droning delerium
Crushing depths
Darkness pressing in
Anxiety begotten
Desperation, my soul
Feeling about; blind
Truth to grasp
Somewhere within
Closing in
Losing sight
Losing touch
Reaching in
Finding nothing left
Against these tides
Of strain
Questing within to seek
The lesson
Escaping me
My plight
Reaching the end
Drowning; pushing out
Longing for breath