Submissions by ashw

I've been alone for countless years,
A speck of dust my only friend,
Deep inside - no hopes nor fears,
Just myself these many years.

I have no past to reminisce,
Therein no future to predict,
There's no one lost for me to miss,
No one with whom to reminisce.

There is no way to pass the time,
As I lie in wait of endless night,
There is no love, or hate, or crime,
The more I think, even no time.

Eternity chose to envelop me,
And forever is all there is to see,
An inescapable void - no calm nor breeze, ...

I find myself on uncertain ground
Straddling an impossible horizon
On one side is day, where my consciousness thrives
On the other is night, where fatigue claims its prize

For years, it seems, I have longed for sleep
For a reprieve from wakefulness and the sun's piercing light
But now, as I stand astride this unlikely fission
I fear what awaits within night's unyielding prison

The darkness has beckoned, calling me forth
Even now its sweet siren reigns down on my soul
Oh, to just close my eyes and let my thoughts be...