Death wish

Death wish

You steal in

When we are exhausted

All the way down to the marrow of our bones

When we feel that life has gone

Too far down highways and byways

We never wanted or wished to travel

And all the things we loved or hungered and hoped for

Have dissolved or disappeared

Leaving only ghostly whispers of tendril pulls

Inside our souls

Weariness takes us

As we lie down in a field

Too exhausted to move

With memories running over and over

Of things we could never fully tell the horror of

Locking our energy up

Within hidden rooms

And corridors of doom

Here is the place

We must try not to stay alone

For too long

And although the exit lies

Along a labyrinthine pathway

We must try to find it

With what small morsel of will

We can summon from deep within

The emptiness

Or else death wish will take us down

Burying our souls

Under the smothering weight

Of a hopelessnes

Too heavy for our soul to bear