Brandishing fate like a sword

Time a shield

I hide behind in the hopes for ahead

Vanishing gate is restored

I must yield

Or lose my mind knowing I should have fled

Been trying for days to put words on the page

Feeling like part of me’s trapped in a cage

The terrible catch is it seems there’s no latch

Quite simply I’m stuck, but I can’t disengage

The nights are the worst

This unquenchable thirst sticks around for a while once the dark has dispersed

The daybreak a small break

Once night has reversed, I’m fine for the time, but soon return cursed

The waiting what kills as the wheel spins on

Someday all abating so sadness stays gone

I wish I could force it and not be withdrawn

Seems that I lack both the brains and the brawn

Maybe we both broke and reassembly works together

We’ll pool our shards of being to see which pieces line up best

We can sit and poke around our grab bag for forever

Or we can swap some parts in hearts

Replace them in our chests

A lesson is taught

Bound action and thought

Until it’s all done

There’s nothing for naught

A being incomplete

Two halves that must meet

Unable to shun

And futile to cheat

Linked souls undersigned

Many lifetimes combined

In every last one

The other to find

I’m sorry I’m not

The guy that you thought

I’m sorry if you feel misled

I apologize for

All the sadness before

And the pain that’s in store still ahead

I beg your pardon

For not being a garden

Deserving of what you have sown

I express my regret

That we’ll never duet

Since I’m ever deaf to your tone

I’d bargain with Beelzebub to bring her beauty back

Her heartbeat held me here at home

A metronome

I lack

I’ve written you letters

And emails

Typed texts

But I know that we’re through

So I stop before sending

I wish I knew better

The details

What’s next?

Could the cards that we drew

Play with alternate endings?

I don’t bother calling

Since I’m sure

You will answer

I’ll lose words and my progress

If I’m hearing that voice

This illness I’m hauling

There’s no cure

Like a cancer

I’ll just follow the process

As if I have a choice

During the eclipse we shared

I saw a star that fell.

I made a wish upon it

With the thought I’d never tell.

I stayed outside to see the rest.

It wasn’t long before,

While black consumed the shrinking moon,

The cosmos shot one more.

I got to make another wish

As it traced a blazing slice.

Then, foolishly, I realized

I made the same wish twice.

Empty, oh so many times

He’d stop to fill his soul

Lines unlike the ones in rhymes

Would help achieve that goal

A pleasant field to explore

He’d gallop, frolic, roll

A moment able to ignore

The ever present hole

He would only get so far

Before he’d face that pit

The tumble’d add another scar

While pride would take a hit

He’d try to climb his way back out

Crumbling walls would force to quit

Trapped deep down he’d wait and shout

It never helped a bit

A friend would always come on by

Throw a rope down to the floor

The prisoner could now defy

Like many times before

Free to run out in the sun

To feel like he could soar

But, by the time the day was done

He’d fail and fall once more

Used to think you’d bring me peace

Back when our love first blossomed

Found out that your darker side

Was only playin’ possum

Now it’s just a constant fight

With words we’re always boxin’

Thought you were the antidote

Turns out you were the toxin