Chris Duffy

Crumb

Crumb.

 

Like  that broken biscuit left there in the barrel

Reduced to nothing but a crumb

Not sad, nor abandoned or forgotten.

Silent, resolute,numb.

 

Like the echoes  from a tombstone or a cavern.

You’re  pleading for your yesterdays return.

The echoes of your life subdued and barron 

Woefully you look back and you yearn.

 

When all you have to fight with is your anger.

On the darkest and the coldest winter’s night.

When your final embers smoulder in the fire.

Defeated and dejected by the fight.

 

Smiling to disguise the way you’re feeling

LIke trying to get back into the race.

Pretending that the world is on you side

Overwhelmed and beaten by the pace.

 

When you realise the good times are behind you.

That the mountain that you’ve climbed is at its peak.

When every day you hope that someone finds you.

Tongue tied with the words you long to speak.

 

You convince the world you have all bases covered.

Assure yourself that you’ll come out on top.

Another you will soon be rediscovered.

Longing for the misery to stop.

 

You climb a mountain that is never ending.

Thoughts hit like a corkscrew through your head.

You feel your spirit rising then descending.

Desolated,Devastated, Dead.