If I had the words

A gift of wings that would not fail

Set my sword

To perforate the veil

Cut this clinging death away

Let the light fall like rain

Solace on a summer day

But I’m bound

Dragging shackles and chains

Starving for grace

As I choke on the profane

Sacrificed my petty dreams

Bled out on the altar of fools

Propitious as light might have been

I let darkness set the rules

Circumstance stultifies the child inside

Nullifies the need

To hope for a greater salvation

My spirit fights but my head concedes

Lost in the chaos around me

If I surrender who will lead

And if by chance you went walking

Through the shattered past I’ve left behind

Pick your way through emotional wreckage

Find my inner child deaf dumb and blind

This failing hope will not carry me

As I struggle toward the light

And so I wait abandoned

As the world spins fast toward night.

I know the truth you cannot see

What I carry hidden in me…