Relinquished Life

I hear you in the music I listen to
I see you in the shows I watch
I feel you late at night, softly on the comforter I sleep under
I smell you’re enticing scent as I finally drift into a stupor
The taste of your lips on mine upon waking from my dream

An inescapable grasp on my heart
Bone cold grim reaper clutching; slowing the rhythmic beats into a murmur
My every movement brings a fine, sharp pain to my chest
I let the hurt build; distracting me from the incessant mental anguish
Dream eater; ravenous, hungry Beast! Eat, eat, devour until there’s nothing left

Leave me brain dead, numbing the pain;
Rot me away into a swarm of pestilence
Until I’m unrecognizable to the world
Just a flesh heap of what once was a human being
Leave me with my scorn, my apathy, my love

Beaten and battered, worn out, exhausted shell of a soul
Come. Rest by my side, let us watch on
Trapped behind the looking glass
As the Pearl of your world drifts away
On the ebb and flow of the shores of fate

Watch on, as your ears go mute
Watch on as your eyes blur, slowly surrounded by white
While your every nerve in your body collapses
The ocean smell replaced by panic as you struggle to breathe
With the taste of saline the last you recall as you sink away from existence