Addicted to Lingering Toxicity

How long must I endure you?
Your chemicals have long left my veins
Yet in the mind you are ever present
Invading my thoughts and darkening my skies
How much longer until hope finally dies?

Your hurricane laid waste to the lowlands
Uprooting all I had ever known
Deadly winds carried off debris of my soul
Pieces of me scattered to the hills
Spread too far to gather

I still feel your talons on my back
Pierce the skin and puncture heart
Agonizing, this unwelcome penetration
Desperately awaiting the release of your grip
Or the calming embrace of death

Amidst the pain of these septic wounds
I turn my eyes to my own hands
My grasp, as unwarranted as yours
As I still cling to this foolish fantasy
Refuse to release this fleeting relation