Falling through the cracks in my skin

Are teardrops salty and warm

Leaving behind murky tracks

Rolling down my chin

Head aching, jaw splitting, bone breaking

The pain never ends, does it?

Deep in the ground there

lay a man, stuck, gone

lost in a land, of

girls and gin, gone in

a land of far flung

plans, gone in a land

of a man, stuck, gone

@darknight

With petals wide, unfolding

A welcoming embrace

Wondering how they came to be

From such a muddy place

Beneath a seed has sprouted

It bursts to break its walls

Fighting through the murkiness

It struggles and it crawls

Representing peacefulness

It doesn't go astray

It's made whole in its suffering

And everything's okay