Swept Away

the words overflow like a crushing wave

and echoes its endless roar of agony

so quickly it cuts at the surface

and settles itself beneath blinded perspectives

the day lingers with skillful submission

bowing to the enormous weight of mournful resentment

and I find myself amongst the tangled vines

of uncertainty and its strangling grasp

night winds stir emotions long hidden in darkness

and place me beneath their crushing mass

where it's too heavy to scream, yet the tears flow

with razor sharp precision to my inner most core

flooding my soul with foreign and distant thoughts

remarkably now my own, first placed there by delusions

of what I thought my life should be and so

effortlessly swept away, now replaced with bitter reality

04/15/2006