Trapped
Search for me
for i am trapped within the pale.
That dark region of this reality
that swallows souls
consumes the spirit
where everything is washed to a muted
dingy grey
the place between
hope and despair
where the living die
and the dead arise
and point accusing fingers
leave me not here
in this limbo
this colorless place
of half light
its chill fingers
steal into my mind
taunting me
laughing
cackling
this purgatory
abyss of oblivion
the place found only when lost
within closely guarded pain
the fruit of shame
of failure
A wind blows through this place
no cooling breeze
a scourering
scathing gale
of thoughts of self
recrimination
guilt and fear dance
within this wind
specters of past
come to accuse
mocking
no features in this void
flat
lifeless
nothing to draw the eye
or mind
from the soul's tempest
a place without answerers
only unanswerable
questions
where daily bread
is pain
seasoned with ash
where blood does not flow
and the moment between heartbeats
is eternity
please deliver me
my strength wanes
and i begin to fathom
the voices within
the wind
embrace me
before i embrace them
to spend my days
a shell
housing a spirit
dried and parched
diliver me
from my ids of march
will you search for me
or leave me here
because i am weak
and afraid
valueless in thine eyes
for needing
call to me
drowned out my keening
somebody
help me find me
for i am lost
