Easing Me, From Afar

adrift the rift of dawn and dusk, i lather in what made me unclean- i softly whisper to one silent star… “may you ease me from afar” a dalliance of hope feeds me- my intellect tender, heart coarse; always hungry for what drains me, clinging onto what already let me go- (so very long ago) breathless and bare i stare at life, for it has been kind yet given pain- ethereal wings soar and demons seek me in distant nightmares in vain i awake LIFELESS unaware of who i was and why i wanted to be someone else alone and forsaken with no chances taken an aria of resounding mercy cries in the sky, i am left not ceasing moments, only left behind to suffer in a brooding elixir of why and how- o, the lengths where I went to try sacrificing my kind heart for transgressions, falling apart and resenting fear from the start- life-long expressions of hope and impressions so, i softly whisper to one silent star… “may you ease me from afar” ___________________________________ 2.2.20