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Cutting (Epilogue)
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The Everyday Battle Pain scorches my mind
As I peruse the novels
Of my recollections
Every night is identical
Read, reminisce, agony
So I incinerated the library
Of my long kept memories
And their embers seared a hollowness
Into my soul
The ashes of my past
Floating away into the blood-red of the firmament
Or is it of my veins
I can’t say
I can’t remember
I don’t care
The stars sing tenderly to me
Their mournful cry from afar
Helpless to relieve me
Powerless to help
Incapable of aiding
A dying man
A vanished cause
A solitary shadow
I’ve given up the contest
There is no longer a challenge
No longer the next battle
Just eternity at my fingertips
And the doorway in my hand
A slit across the open earth
And I fade into nothingness
Perhaps they will miss me when I’m gone
Funny how they listen
When you can no longer speak
Yet, perhaps they will forget me
I do not know
Another life aborted
Gone into I know not where
