Tears stream down my face,
here I sit alone.
Will this be my torture?
For my sins, must I atone?
I reach for you,
and you back away.
What are your fears?
You used to hold me tight.
Used to wipe away the tears.
But now you seem to hate me,
rip to shreds my heart.
What went wrong?
Tell me.
How did we fall apart?
So tell me now,
do you love me?
Do you even know?
I can't seem to see it.
That which you never show.
Pieces crumble and fall around me as I fall into my pit. Gnashing teeth and eyes surround me taunting me to quit. Sharp sticks and cracking whips. The rattle of the cage. These things I know all too well, send me into rage. Bound by arm and...
The clock strikes twelve. The echo rings. It chimes, it tolls, and of memories it does sing. Of past success or recent failure. Love, lust, or simply pleasure. As the hours tick by ever so slow. I can't help but wonder where I will go. Certainly...
It was the dawn of a new day, and a light breeze swayed the branches of the hist trees. The cries of a newly hatched breaks the silence of the marsh. The mother leaves over the cradle and picks up the child, hushing it in a foreign tongue. Though the...