caress

 
loneliness of soul I'm missing something
wandering spirit return to me
caress the feeling

sensing you are near
covet the art of forgetting
it hurts too much to remember

listless day give me invitation
to share in celebration with your earth-bound children

remorseful shadow cultivating sorrow within me
draw nearer so I will know the immortal
part me from my brothers and sisters
and let me forget what it is to be human

painful understanding I am terribly different
with thoughts of where will I go
cast in utter isolation

emptiness of feeling besiege me
captive audience with knowledge of the abyss
if flows through my being
A sip will shatter your illusions

My delusions are powerful
cutting through the most staunch of beliefs
oh dreadful faith
Why couldn't you be mine

so I could stand in the shade with the rest