Slice of Life

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inner workings

You are gone.

It's easier now.

You aren't here

To hold me

Like you always did

To keep me from my destiny.

    Each day

    It comes with a little less pain.

    The slices become deeper.

If you knew

You'd hold me again

Rock me to sleep

Make my destiny seem cold.

    You don't want me

    To do what I must.

    You want me to stay

    With you

    But that's something

    I can't do.

    Not now.

The slices are getting deeper

And I don't feel pain anymore.

    You loved me well.

    Understand that I have no complaint.

    I just can't be held

    Not when I'm so close to destiny.

These slices are too deep to turn back now.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I wrote this in 1998.  It has a kind of quiet desperation.

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