barren

 
sadness wells inside my sacredness
I smile but I'm crying
emptiness echoes my loneliness

bereft of tears, I ache
my heart heavy can't carry the weight of it
it hurts to be this vulnerable

tender to the touch
brimming with honesty
with no one to utter it to

my sorrow is an intimate soulmate
keening in the shadows

I need you

sanctify the offering with incense
I gently raise up my pride
my spirit can bear no more

whispering to the darkness
see me broken inside
shattered by the rite
carried away on the winds
where I rest in the barren places

shaded in grief
I curse the shadows that follow me
into the madness
where I can be me

with or without you I will go on