Distressed

if i could find a way
to ease the pain i feel
if i could have a say
for it all to heal
nothing has any meaning now
all days do blur into one
nothing really there anyhow
when all is said and done
whirling and swirling all around
i exist and nothing more
feel like laying on the ground
rotting to the very core
does each and every beginning
from which everything start
really have any meaning?
do i feel it in my heart?
sighing and bleeding and weeping
vanishing dreams all out of reach
feel myself just slipping and sliding
rolling off the edge of the beach
into the eddying fast current of water
the riptide trapping and zapping
all my strength as i start to falter
lungs just drowning with water filling
do not feel for me
sorrow is my emotion
look away and leave me be
in all of my commotion
for you, it is fear
afraid of any hurt
and costing you dear
and yet it is all dirt
nothing more and nothing less
to give and give until no more
nothing here and still no rest
what is there? what's left in store?
another night comes and go
another day awakens then sleep
another time comes creeping so
another breathe taken deep
what is there really?
come look out the door
it really seems so silly
looking down at the floor
faraway, i wish i could be
to run away is what i want to do
but is that what i see?
no, i'm stuck to this goo
so if i vanish someday
fear not for me
i might have found my way
the peace i seek, you see.
 
 
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