Contractions

For all your troubled thoughts

Among the silence that you keep

In the darkness amidst the cold

Your tired eyes; from lack of sleep

I cannot help but be here

Into the dark blue abyss

where you might be tossed and thrown

my arms will paddle fast and quick

that you won't drown and die alone

It's not so simple to keep you sane

with violent screams in your head

It's hard not to surrender

when you prefer yourself, dead

A cyclone of emotion swings

descending upon your path

for all the gods that don't exist

this is their wishful wrath

And I will battle your torturous demons

and wrestle them to ground

even if it allows you to rest your eyes

I'll exist till I cannot be found

For life is short and we've both seen

how jigsaw puzzles can be tiles

You only need walk a bit further

And I'll crawl the thousand miles

That one day, sometime in spring

May your night terrors come to past

My happiness is not the key

It's yours; that I hope will last.