She told my future

My sutures

Will break

I’ve tried acting shy

I deny

So I ache

The fear always here

Now it’s clear

I can’t shake

My trying is lying

Undying

I wake

A change oh so strange

Rearranged

Anagram

The letters unmatched

Since my mask

Is a skam

The rhymes won’t changes schemes

Like the themes

In my life

My fun night

A gunfight

I win with a knife

Constant torture ineffective.

Give me hope and then refuse.

I need joy to grant perspective.

To have something left to lose.

I attempt to ditch this yearning

To protect myself from pain.

Still I earn eternal burning.

Every effort ends in vain.

It would seem there’s no evasion.

Not a chance to leave this cell.

I get Heaven on occasion

To remind me I’m in Hell.

Maybe I’m Dante.

That’s what I infer.

No.

It’s much more likely I’m crazy, I think.

Possibly Tantalus.

I’m not really sure, though.

I can’t reach the fruit or sink to the drink.

I could be Sisyphus.

My boulder a wheel.

Right after rising, it rolls down the track.

Wish I were Orpheus.

Then I could deal.

I’d run to you. No way in Hell I’d look back.

We had lightning in a bottle

Bolts struck twice and we caught both

Then you eased up on the throttle

Broken heart and broken oath

From breaking hearts to braking hard

From slowing down to stopping

Jarred lightning let loose left love charred

Storm of tears has left me sopping

If I had a singing voice

I’d use the thing nonstop

To bring an end to all your tears

If they should start to drop

If I was good at artsy stuff

I’d paint and draw just you

So you could see your beauty

In the way I always do

If I was a better writer

I’d send this to make you smile

Sadly, you won’t read it

Just another on the pile

Returning once more

Okay then, miss shady

I’d like to deplore

But you’re still my lady

I can’t quit on love

My drug ’til I’m ending

We fit like a glove

So let’s stop pretending

If you will stay mine

Then I can stay stronger

We’ll find the design

Keep longing no longer

We’ll walk hand in hand

We can follow that beam

Soon you’ll understand

That we make the best team

Wish I had been stronger

To lift all this wait

To turn the great wheel that deals our fate

More seconds to steal to reveal something great

Might be a bit longer

But not sideways 8

Been watching cloud faces

Silver search keeps me sane

Just don’t mind me mining when you’re on my brain

Know we’ll find aligning times while I remain

We’ll touch all the bases

Run home and sustain

First begged “Never leave”

Then told not to wait.

Like, really?

I’m feeling quite silly of late.

If I have a soul

I’d bet you have its mate.

I hope at some date

A clean slate is our fate

It’s tempting, wow.

But I’m empty now.

All I wanted was to vent.

Now I resent my vow.

I express my discontent.

Still you invent, allow.

I wish we could circumvent.

Stop this descent. But how?

A “bye” by and by

Too long and too short

You once caught my eye

Now vision distorts

I tried to comply

But this was just sport

Now time to defy

These demons I’ll thwart