O Lord,
why do you allow
such calamity
to infect my life?
1. why do you
make my heart
bleed into my tears?
2. why have
these putrid thoughts
overrun my mind?
3. why does evil
swarm around me,
buzzing in my ears?
4. Why do flies
try to eat away
at joy’s flesh?
5. why has disease
decimated all of
my remaining hope?
6. why does heartache
cover my skin with
a swelling rash?
7. why has deception
pelted and dented
heart’s fragile surface?
8. why does loneliness
chirp in my ears
at the fall of dusk?
9. why has light
faded away and
my insides tarred black?
10. why do I feel dead
to living on without
my firstborn love?
Can my heart ever
be softened enough
to become free
from pain and heartbreak?