Torment of My Loss

The birth of night exuded from my womb
My distance from the truth increased to fast
The darkness fell and could not be removed
Away from light we shift as moments pass

To fall in brittle blackness for all time
Unable to escape or rise above
The slain chance of her becoming mine
To push away my only chance at love

And suffer empty moments earned by her
Undone! My strength my will is lost this night
The cause unknown; the reason but a blur
I fought; I won; the darkness left my sight

Yet still somehow she left; she went away
The torment of my loss shall e’er remain

J. Abram Barneck.
Copyright © 2003 by Rhyous, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Revised: 13 Nov 2003 15:01:22 -0700.

Leave a Reply

Related Post

Jan 11

Outside

I stand outside the circle looking in With hopes to step inside and see within Prevented are my motions to approach, With grace she me evades without reproach. Our hands entwined I think the step has come, With skins caress I think the step was won, But foolish me, I have not closer got I […]

Jan 22

Loveless Fire

The bitter broken nerves that lance my flesh And writhe inside my skin in anxious pain, Extract my will with hopes sharp pointed death And leaves me wanting, dripping with your feign. Pretended motivation given leaves, Replaced by tingling sorrow through my soul. What touch of hand or lip or breast relieves Is back to […]

Jan 04

But Morning Comes

Alone in darkness weakened by the night A pit I dig to trap my foolish self. Success! I’m trapped and hidden from the light, From eyes that dwell above earths solid shelf. As stone I sit immobile, empty, bleak; Not dead yet frozen by inertia’s power I should escape but will is broken, weak. I […]