The Poet

Pain

Like salt to a fresh wound

The pain keeps me bound

In chains I cannot break

My days and nights bleak

 

Like a moth to a flame

On a path deadly and lame

Trembling upon the darkest way

My tomorrow fading away 

 

Carrying it with every piece of me

Yet the load never lightens

Crying it out trying to flee

Yet the hurt only tightens

 

Lonely in a crowded room

No human fathoms my strain

Seated face full in gloom

I write it all out again